This is another sadhu, this time sitting down at the ghats. He has the traditional trident associated with all followers of Shiva.
Posts Tagged ‘ghats’
Another Baba
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged baba, ghats, sadhu on 7 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Early Morning Puja
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged ghats on 7 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These gentlemen where performing their early morning ablutions in the ganges.
Burning Ghat
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged cremation, ghats on 7 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the photo that I really shouldn’t have taken. This is the main burning ghat here in Varanasi where two to three hundred bodies are cremated every day. For the Hindu people to die and be cremated here is to immediately achieve enlightenment and therefore not have to be reborn. The [...]
Ghat at Dawn
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged ghats on 7 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was one of the quieter ghats (ghats are the steps that lead into a river of lake).
The light at this time of day is especially nice.
Boat Guy
Posted in India, photography, photos, travel, tagged boat, ghats, river on 7 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the young guy who rowed myself and a friend up and down the river at dawn this morning. It was a pretty chilled thing to do, watching everybody bathing in the Ganges and performing their own daily puja (hindu ritual).
