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24 images Created 30 Jan 2016

The ghats of Varanasi

There are nearly one hundred chats in Varanasi, the riverfront steps that lead to the holiest of rivers, according to Hindus, to those living close to its waters, and specially those whose lives end there.
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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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