2nd feb - varanasi

today we walked the whole length of the ghats, which well was a reasonable walk. there is the burning ghat like i mentioned aboive and then also a main ghat where people tend to congregate and stalls are and people arre trying to sell you everything from a massage to a boat. there re of coruse (being a holy city) cows everywhere...and heeps of them too, and my favourite though are the goats and the kids (as in goat babies, not the children!) they are soooo cute. poor den had to take many photos of the lil things and put up with a lot of cooing.
so once we got to the far ghat, we took a boat at the way back and decided to stop on the other side of the river. really dens notion but turned out to be a bit of a good one. the other side is basically a huge long and wide beach, anyways so you get on there and looks like a bloody desert. you can tell i thought this was a heap of fun, but den then found a yellow shack thing and being the mn he is just wandered on inside. turns out was a babas house...baba is a holy man. so i got invited in to sit round the fire and have some coffee the baba was making. thought it was all very quiet and that the man wasn't reeeeeaallly teaching anything (he did bash on his drum into a mobile phone which was quite random i thought) but i got a business card (of a holyman! mobile number included, spose if i ever wanted some dr bashing over the phone..) and turns out he has taken a vow of silence for 12 years! at least no need for small talk. so had some coffee in disposal able cup (terracott ones they just throght out the door onto the sand) and had some photos and saw his photo album...apparently he used to be a singer or something. bit odd. but really unique and now i have THE best business card for my scrapbook. spent forever finding lunch and ended up eating round about 5pm! things are never served v quickly here either :P had a quiet night in.