Ok, so I've been in Varanasi for a few days now: time to update the troops.
First of all: it really isn't as bad as I'd read or heard. Sure the people are kind of pushy, but then, so were the people in Vietnam. Although the horns are about 3 times louder than they should be, they don't honk as much, and you can feel safe (relatively) while walking down narrow alleys at after dark and during a power outage (these happen a couple of times a day). We've walked down the ghats (the stairs all along the Ganges) and saw the people bathing, washing their clothes, meditating, brushing their teeth etc... We even took a boat ride along the shre to get a better view. We got lost in the narrow alleys, got offered apparently "good quality" hashish by mystical-looking elderly chaps and even saw bodies being cremated (though you really can't see much).
Oh, and Elise was assaulted by a monkey, but I'll let her tell you all about it.
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- Does your minkey bite?
- This is not my minkey.
(With apologies to Blake Edwards and the late Peter Sellers)
Can anyone say Dr. Seyus!!!
What can I say?
I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-A to chimpan-Zee
Nah, they're cool, but the locals look at you funny when you take pictures of them. A bit like we look at tourists a bit strangely when they take dozens of pictures of squirrels.
They're taking over.
Ok Elise need to you story about this monkey anyway iam sure are having fantastic time nick keep out of the redlight distirct jimmy haha
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