{"id":945,"date":"2011-01-21T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:03:18","slug":"photo-friday-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/indian-woman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-950\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-950\" title=\"Indian Woman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4834-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman watches over her children as they play in the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/bathing-ghats\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Bathing Ghats\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4851-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathers come every morning to the ghats by the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/indian-man\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-949\" title=\"Indian Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4829-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading the Newspaper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/prayer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-948\" title=\"Prayer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4815-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hindu Prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/indian-family\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-952\" title=\"Indian Family\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_5023-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Indian family on the ghats by the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-947\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photo-friday-varanasi\/ganges-river\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-947\" title=\"Ganges River\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4811-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man makes a donation in the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"morelink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/estimate\/India\/1253405\">Travel Costs for Benares (Varanasi), India<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s photos are from our time in Varanasi, India (also known as Benares). 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