after a really long time I decided to up-date some of my India exerience ;)I had no time to do it, but today I dont feel good, I'm not at work, so I decided to write sth about my journey :)
Weekend 29-30.09.09
28.09.09 we went to Varanasi (at least!!), now without any adventures, which could cancel our trip :P We were 5 people: me, Olya, Liis, Matthias and Robert. We didnt have return tickets, because it turned out that there are no tickets for the train we wanted, so we decided to go to Varanasi and check if sth changes there (because from hour to hour there's a different situation with tickets - some people resign, some book, so U never know). But when e reached Varanasi (over 700km - 20 zł :D) there were still no free tickets, so we've just booked tickets for another train (and we didnt go work, because it was too late, but no problem;)).
We've taken pre - paid rickshaw and went to the city. Bayas showed us a lot of guest houses, but, as usual, we decided for the first one (100 Rps/night) and it was a right choice. We had 2 rooms in a guesthoe next to the Ganga River. The owner of the guesthouse organized for us 2 boat trips - one during sunset and 2nd during sunrise. But at first, when we've finally accomodated, after breakfast - lunch (because we've been waiting for it for about 1,5hr), we went to the Ganga River to walk along the banks. It was great. U have to know that the Ganga River is a Holly River for Hindi people. Along this river, there are many Ghats, including 2 ghats, where they cremate people. I dont wanna lie here, so I think it'll be safier for U to read about it in the Internet, I mean about cremating bodies and put them into the river, because I can write sth wrongly. When we were walking along this river, suddenly we've seen a woman lying into the river. I though: "Who can be so crazy to lie and sleep into this river?!". But sth was wrong and after 3 -4 seconds I knew--> that was a dead woman. Why they didnt burn her? Because pregnant women and children cannot be burned. So she was just put into the river. But I dont understand one thing: Indian people whom I know told me that they dont put the whole bodies into the river, so... I dunno now, that's why it'll be better if U read it by Yourself...
Apart from this fact and ghats where they cremate people, walking around this river is very pleasant. U can really chill out, calm down and think about many things, even about the life and death. This is a really good place for doing it. During this walking around, we've met 2 really nice, small gis, who I guess saw for the first time in their life camera and video - camera, because they were so happy seeing themselves into the camera screen :P
Normally, children want to talk to U, because they want Ur money, but these 2 girls were sooo nice, they didnt want anything, but pictures and later, when they discovered it - the movies, as they called "moving pictures" :)) Of course, in the end we decided to give them something, because they were so nice :)One thing which made me completely amazed: people do the washing - up in this river. This river is SO DIRTY (not even mention that into this river, there are cremated parts of people!) and they do this washing - up and U know what?
It is CLEAN! They dry these clothes next o the river, so we were able to see it.After that, we went to the restaurant (because it started to rain - VERY much :P) for mocktails - I've taken sth very good, it was red with a huge amount of ginger (fresh ginger), so it was spicy:)) In India even mocktails are spicy, but no problem :)
In the evening we've met 3 people from Switzerland who were living in the same guesthouse and went with us for boat trip. It was soo nice, when U're on the boat on the Ganga... beautiful when it became dark, each of us put candles with roses onto this river and made a wish. According to the boy who sold these candles, if U put the candle into the water and make a wish, it will come true, so.. we'll see :)
We went to one ghat, where was a kind of celebration. I dont even know what was that exactly, but it was nice, men were doing some things with fire, smoke etc.
We were sitting in a boat watching it, very beautiful :) U can see in in the pictures (facebook or my Picasa). After coming back to the hotel, we went to our restaurant with our new Swiss friends and some of us (including me of course :P) ordered a special lassi. In Pushkar, there is a special lassi as well, but in Varanasi it was really tasty! Just to remind U: special lassi is a lassi with marijuana. Well.. what I can say... It was really funny after that and very hard to wake up in the middle of the night and move about 4 metres, where the bathroom was ;) It took about 10 minutes to cover this distance... but it was funny ;) at 5-6 o'clock (morning)we had to wake up and go for the boat trip during sunrise... that was f***in' hard.. but we did it. It was beautiful, the problem was just with getting into the boat, come on: it was MOVING :P but we also did it :) In the early morning (about4-6am), religious people start to pray and take a bath in the river. ys, in the Ganga.... 
everything is ofc in the pitures, check it out ;)later we spent some time walking along the banks and the city, we went to the temples and to the hops where I put saree on myself :) and later come back to Delhi... the whole night in our favourite train :) I really like Indian trains! And these prices! Awesome! After over 700km, we reached Delhi....
Next weekend we spent in Amritsar - the city of the Golden Temple, but about it later :)
