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The ghats of Varanasi

25 images Created 30 Jan 2016

Eight kilometers where a holy city embraces a holy river.

(You can read more about it in my blog: http://blog.joaoalmeidaphotography.com/2016/02/ghats-varanasi/).

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  • The ghats of Varanasi filled with burning dyias during Dev Deewapali.
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  • Birds at sunrise close to the shore of the ganges at Varanasi
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  • Elderly bather performing ablution in the Ganges early in the morning at one of the ghats.
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  • Preparing an offering for the Ganges.
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  • Bathers in the Ganges early in the morning at one of the ghats of Varanasi
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  • Bathers in the Ganges early in the morning, while the rowboats filled  with tourists cross nearby.
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  • Bathers in the Ganges early in the morning at one of the ghats of Varanasi
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  • The activity of the ghats of Varanasi, people performing ablutions and the rowboats getting ready.
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  • The boatmen that row the boats along the ghats of Varanasi
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  • Holy man praying at one of northern, and quieter, ghats.
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  • The boatmen that row the boats along the ghats of Varanasi waiting for customers.
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  • Portrait of candle seller at Assi ghat
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  • Holy man lingering the ghats of Varanasi.
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  • Boatman sitting at anchored rowboats at the end of the day.
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  • Holy man (presumably a fake one) sitting at Manikarnika ghat, nearby the wood used in the burning pyres.
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  • Washer washing clothes in the waters of the Ganges.
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  • Clothes drying in the walls of the ghats
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  • Boys playing cricket close to Harischandra ghat.
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  • Boys doing dogfights with their kites in the ghats.
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  • Manikarnika, the main burning ghat of Varanasi
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  • Man leaving offering outside a temple at Varanasi
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  • The forever burning fire, from where all pyres are lit, at Manikarnika ghat.
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  • Ganga Aarti takes place everyday at dusk at Dashashwamedh Ghat
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  • Manikarnika, the main burning ghat of Varanasi seen from the opposite shore of the Ganges
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