Varanasi

i woke up early to go on the ganges river to see the locals bathe in the water that is holy to them. i was so taken by what i saw. there was some time of festival going on at the time…where people were throwing homemade statutes of some of the gods into the water after putting them on fire. i witnessed a few funeral pyres being lit on the banks of the river. i feel honored to have seen such real tradition and real people and real lives. i will never forget it.