Kashi · Varanasi · Since 3000+ Years
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Explore Varanasi. Discover top temples, ghats, food, festivals, history & travel tips. Your complete Travel guide to the heart of spiritual India.
Explore Varanasi. Discover top temples, ghats, food, festivals, history & travel tips. Your complete Travel guide to the heart of spiritual India.
Varanasi — also called Kashi and Banaras — is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, alive with over 3,000 years of unbroken ritual. Eighty-four ghats line the river, hosting everything from sunrise boat rides to the iconic evening Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh, while Manikarnika Ghat carries the city's oldest promise — moksha.
Beyond the river, Banaras is Kashi Vishwanath's bells, the hum of handlooms weaving Banarasi silk, the taste of kachori-sabzi at dawn, and classical music drifting from centuries-old havelis. This is our running guide to all of it — Blog Varanasi, written for anyone about to visit Banaras for the first time or the fiftieth.
Priests raise flaming brass lamps in unison as conch shells sound — the single most unmissable ritual in Varanasi, every evening at dusk.
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One of the twelve Jyotirlingas, at the heart of the newly opened Kashi Vishwanath Corridor connecting temple to river.
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Follow gold zari threads through the by-lanes of Madanpura, where families have woven Banarasi saris for generations.
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