“Hello Sir, welcome to Varanasi!” The moment you arrive in the train station of Varanasi, it is immediately clear you have arrived in a tourist city. The hawkers are waiting for you on the platform, and even speak reasonable English. But this is nothing compared to what awaits you when you walk along the city’s famed ghats (stairs leading to the Ganges river): almost without exception, the locals that start chatting with you, do so for one purpose and one purpose only: getting some bills out of your wallet. That being said, the ghats are beautiful, the old town is a great place to get lost, the lassi’s are mouthwatering (my favourite shop: Green Lassi in Assi Ghat) and the street food phenomenal (wandering the food stalls of the Lanka district, right in front of Banaras Hindu University, is my guilty pleasure).
One tip: given the proximity of fresh water (the Ganges), do not be surprised if you have quite a bit of bloodthirsty mosquitos in your bedroom - your (impregnated) mosquito net will prove its use here!
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