Varanassi

On 12 December I took a night train from Hardiwar to Varanasi. According the Lonely planet this train supossed to take only 17 hours. To my suprise it took nearly 23 hours. Appertly I took a slow 20:30 pm train from Hardiwar and this train stopped at the most place including very small places.

The good thing is you see a lot of the country side of India and communitors between small places. The bad thing was I arrived at 19:40 in Varanassi.
Varanassi is not a good place to arrive in the evening because it is a crazy place. So that night (tuesday) I stayed in Buddha hotel which is near the train station. Is nice hotel with cabel television but now hot water in the evening just a bucket. It is the most expensive placed I stayed 400 rps a night (8 euro) But sometime you need something different.

The Nextday (wednesday)I changed to Ganpatti Guesthouse. This guesthouse has a nice rooftop overlooking the Gaths and the Ganga river. Two years ago I stayed at the same guesthouse but in a different season. Now it is the dry season the Ganga is prety low while two years ago the Ganga was very high. The good thing now is you can walk along the riverbanks and avoid the always busy old town. In the old town you get always lost. So the last number of days I was walking along the riverbanks, seeing many things. But that will be in a next story.

MJR