Varanasi Nutz and Bolts

The Basics

City Name: Varanasi
Where is it located?: Varanasi is in northern India on the Ganges River.
Why do people go there?: Mark Twain once wrote, “Benaras (Veranasi) is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together.” Varanasi is the holiest city in India, where Hindus come to the banks of the Ganges river t
How do travelers get there?: Varanasi is on the travelers circuit and most people arrive by bus.
Currency: Rupee
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Population: 2500000
Languages: Hindi & English, there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout n

Travel Information

Neighborhoods:
Attractions: Alamgir Mosque, Durga Temple, Vishwanat Temple, Bharat Mata Temple
Accommodations: Varanasi Hostels
Tourist Office: India Tourism Office
Off-the-beaten-path: Sarnath, Bodhgaya and Kushinagar
Health Issues: Cholera, Dengue Fever, Hepatitis, Malaria, Meningococcal Meningitis, Typhoid

Tips for Visiting

When to go: India is vast – with various mountain ranges, ecosystems and climate factors that make it impossible to say the best time to visit India. In one part of the country it will be cool, and in the other part it will be humid, hot and raining. Generally speaki
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How to get around?: Local transport runs the gamet of the experience. It all depends upon how much money you want to pay an how much of the experience you want controlled, although it seems like nothing works in Inida. You can have everything from a horse-drawn carriage to v
Good to know: Varanasi is an important pilgrimage centre for the Hindus.

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