Flights

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Air India # 695
 
Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji (BOM) to Varanasi (VNS)
Departure (BOM): January 10, 8:30 AM IST (morning)
Arrival (VNS): January 10, 10:30 AM IST (morning)


Thursday, January 12, 2012
Air India # 696
 
Varanasi (VNS) to Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji (BOM)
Departure (VNS): January 12, 11:00 AM IST (morning)
Arrival (BOM): January 12, 1:05 PM IST (afternoon)

Notes

Bring flashlight

Mumbai

Chor Bazaar

Thieve's market

Colaba

This popular tourist district includes museums, the Gateway of India, a slew of shops and vendors on the Colaba Causeway and the Sassoon Dock, where fishing boats unload their pungent catches at dawn

Gateway of India

Dhobi Ghat

100s of washermen wash clothes in large concrete wash pens under the open sky.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

India's most beautiful railway station is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture with stained-glass windows, towering spires, domed arches and buttresses and pillars with animal images carved into them

Kanheri Caves

Varanasi

Guest House

Puja Guest House

D 1/45 Lalita Ghat
Near Nepali Temple
Tel 326102

Sites

Boat ride

Ghats

Some of the prominent and popular Ghats at Varanasi are the Dasaswamedh Ghat, Manikarnika Ghat, Harischandra Ghat, Kabir Ghat and Assi Ghat.

Manikarnika Ghat

The main cremation Ghat of Varanasi. Manikarnika Ghat is one of the oldest and most sacred Ghats in Benaras.

Food

Blue Lassi

Banarasi Khana

To get really authentic Banarasi Khana you're going to have to get to the main market area or, better, to have a banarasi friend inviting you at home.

Benares Dum Aloo

You can't go away from Benares without eating local specialities as aloo chat and pani puri and, in general, the street food.

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