This week’s photos are from our time in Varanasi, India (also known as Benares). The River Ganges flows through the city and is considered the holiest place in the world for Hindus. People come to bathe and cleanse themselves in the river along the many ghats which descend from the city streets into the river.

IMG 4834 Photo Friday: Varanasi
A woman watches over her children as they play in the river
IMG 4851 Photo Friday: Varanasi
Bathers come every morning to the ghats by the river
IMG 4829 Photo Friday: Varanasi
Reading the Newspaper
IMG 4815 Photo Friday: Varanasi
A Hindu Prayer
IMG 5023 Photo Friday: Varanasi
An Indian family on the ghats by the river
IMG 4811 Photo Friday: Varanasi
A man makes a donation in the river
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