Still Recovering from my Agra Belly.... Varanasi... was a bit of a shock, this was the holy city, on the mighty Ganga! Yes! The Ganga! I was so Excited! I had read so much about this place... and what interesting stuff is contained within the water....
We started off with an General tour of the area...seeing people.. about to be cremated was a bit of a shock....they were a little ripe too... if you know what I mean... the water... well... disgusting I was questioning if I really wanted to go for a dunk or not...... this was one of my goals for the trip to India... to get dunked in the mighty Ganga!.... a lot of rubbish.... and filth urine/open sewers..... and you would see people bathing doing there washing.... cleaning there teeth with the Ganga water....
Later the next day.... we went for yet another walk... along the edge.... this is where we could see the horror... (no pictures of this)... a dog... had a nice bone... and was pretty happy about it... wouldn't let anyone else touch it.... even other dogs.... it was a little burned.... yes..... you know what it was.... If they don't have enough wood to fully cremate people, the dogs get a bit of BBQ'ed long pork.... this was seen over the night boat trip.... a pack of dogs.... hanging around the remains of a fire.... yes... you just knew what they were after...
Anyway.... I plucked up the courage.... or stupidity (we will see in the up coming weeks) and had my dunking in the Ganga! (I did this twice...) we took a boat to the other side of the river.... where the water was ALOT cleaner.... the river is pretty wide... around 1km... (this is the dry season.... must be totally crazy in the wet...) I jumped in.... in my undies.... with a few from the tour.... watching!!!..... did 2 dunks... as well as the 36 splashes.... then quickly back in the boat!... and the hotel to have a shower!
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