We booked a bus from Dehli to Agra to look at the Taj Mahal. Unfortunately the booking did not arrive at the bus and we did not have a seat in the bus. So we had to take a local bus, which took us 6 hours to get to Agra. Big bity, because so we did not have the time to look at the Taj Mahal, because we have already booked an over night train in the afternoon to Varanasi.
Varanasi - the holy city. It is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism. Some Hindus believe that death at Varanasi brings salvation. According to legend, Varanasi was founded by the God Shiva.
The city is on the river Ganges. "Death, which elsewhere is feared, here is welcomed as a long-expected guest." Funerals, which are taking place near the river, burn dead bodys nonstop and the ash will be thrown into the water.
People travel from around the country and the world to spend their last days here or to bath in this water. Hindus believe in the power of the Ganges water.
The idea to bath in that water it's little scary for us three, as dead people find there their peace. Also because people who were bitten by a cobra, Holy people, pregnant woman and kids get not burned, the bodys will be lowered into the water.
For the locals is that their normal life, they wash there cloths in the river too. We had a look at the Funerals and the Ceronomie for Shiva in the evening.
Varanasi was a really special experience.
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