We have been in Varanasi for a day longer than expected already but we are going to leave tomorrow for Mumbai which involves a 28 hour train journey and that's if it's on time which seems unlikely. In the last 4 days we walked around Varanasi, a lot. The river Ganges runs right through the city and is India holiest river. Hundreds of people are cremated in one spot on its banks every day the cremations are public and there are numerous happening and any one time...

After our first train journey we arrived in Varanasi, well sort of; we actually arrived in mogul sarai which is about 25kms away from Varanasi. So after the usually negotiating and haggling we were in an auto rickshaw heading to our hostel in Varanasi. The train journey from Delhi was pretty good, we had plenty of tasty food included and it was reasonable comfortable. However instead of the 8 hours it's was supposed to take it was over 20 hours! We have atleast...