Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Can you describe Varanasi

Today I was talking to some people and ask them to describe Varanasi. But the responds was mostly: "you can not describe Varanasi".
I can take some pictures, I can take short movies with my camera. But I would still miss the smells.

When I walked along the ghats I thought by now I should have seen it, but the picture is changing every day, no day is the same. Varanasi is everyday in your face. Do you want postcards? Do you want Massage? Do you want chai? Do you want to buy clothes? What are you looking for? What do you want to buy? Etc......The cycle rickshaw there are so many, the roads who look like country roads.

But then there is the Ganga, floating nice and quit. Along the riverbanks you walk from one gath to another gath. Or I would sit down for a cup of tea. Watching the boat people, people washing clothes, people drinking holy Ganga water, man, woman and child taking bath while next to this bodies are burnt in one burning gaths.

Varanasi makes me tired, most travelers go to bed around 9:30 pm. The pollution and there is to much to see, not so much museum, but Varanasi as it is A live and buzeling.

At the moment I take some flute lessons for someone who never did something with music it is a first step.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hé Rijnen,

Vanuit een (inmiddels)
wit Nederland alvast een goed uiteinde toegewenst!

Wilfred en Claudia

9:22 PM  

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