Whew, what a crazy day. Shopping shopping shopping. Today also appears to be Official Hassle the Tourist Day in Varanasi, so I'm feeling a little tired.
It's been really low hassle up till today, but I was seriously physically throwing people off on my way up the street/alley just now.
We made it to a sunrise boat trip along the Ganges yesterday (weeelll, maybe it was a little after sunrise). That was amazing. The light was so gentle ver the river, and the thronging crowds at the waterfront were so colourful. It's bizarre, touristing people having their morning wash in the river, or a religious dip . . .
We had this lovely little old man called Sunil rowing our boat. He had enormous glasses and an orange lungi (like a sarong for men). He had very little English, but he pointed out to us every time we went past a corpse (eg. at the ghats being burnt, or immersed in the water) - "see dead body dead body". He really must think that tourists are a bunch of necro weirdos.
Will contiue later, this internet connection is very slow.
Posted by eithne at March 13, 2004 09:32 AM | TrackBack