Wow! Firstly our overnight train was delayed for four hours, which meant we had to sleep on the train platform for four hours. Two of our male yogis kept guard as we slept, some of us surprisingly comfortably. We arrived in Varanasi in the evening and the next day we spent time exploring this ancient city of many contrasts.
The 3500 year fire rituals of the burning ghats sat in sharp contrast to the new Modi-inspired mega mall of the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir. This is a place we’re people wear VCRs to see the temple, where high tech CCTV and police are everywhere, and ATMs and cashless QR codes are the norm. India has largely embraced this high tech leap but some things remain tgr same. Watch our NZ! The new world order is already here in India!
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