Varanasi

The Husband Test

Tabby Biddle | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Delhi Belly, Relationships, Varanasi, India, Healing, Transformational Travel, Spirituality, Rishikesh, Living News
Tabby Biddle

I missed writing the blog last week! This was not due to any laziness or any other lame reason, but rather due to the fact that I was laid up in bed ...

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A Clean Karma Bath in the Muck of the Ganges (xvi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Pooja, Purification Exercise, India, Women Travelers, Varanasi, Spirituality, Ganges, Karma, Living News
Karin Badt

Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.

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Child Photography in Varanasi: Pooja with Puja (xiv)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Pooja, Picture-Taking, Varanasi, Sony Camera, Purification Ritual, Beautiful Little Girl, Children in India, International Adoption, Women Travelers, Orphans, Living News
Karin Badt

I sat on a curb in the dark, the sun not yet lifted, watching dozens and dozens of people sleeping on the concrete, some beginning to rise, the breeze fresh from the Ganges.

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Streetkid Shopping in Varanasi (xv)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: India, Shopping for Clothes, Varanasi, Spirituality, Street Children, Puja, Generosity, Women and Tourism, Tourism, Women Tourists, Adventurous Women, Indian Families, Living News
Karin Badt

The most fun experience one can have in India, if you have an extra twenty dollars, is take a street child to buy her new clothes.

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Varanasi: The Illicit (xiii)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.09.2008 | Style

Read More: India, Varanasi, Tips for Women Travelers, Widow, Loss, Sex, Style News
Karin Badt

The travelers who come to Ganges View Hotel are unusual: a sophisticated Danish woman who works with trauma victims in Iraq, Columbia and other war a...

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Varanasi: City of Rebirth (xii)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: India, Varanasi, Spirituality, Life After Death, Cremation, Travel Tips for Women, Living News
Karin Badt

There is nothing like waking up at dawn to take a boat ride down the Ganges, past the men standing mid-waist in water, placing their hands together in prayer and chanting.

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Varanasi: The City of the Dead (xi)

Karin Badt | Posted 10.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Women Travelers, Samsara, Primo Levi, India, Cremation, Death, Varanasi, Kieslowski, Ganges, Gangesview Hotel, Living News
Karin Badt

Varanasi, the holy city of the dead, is a blast of life. Right from the train station, the roads are dense in clanking bicycles, women in black veils...

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