Morning at Vizianagaram Ghat

This sacred site is characterized by the daily rituals of the Varanasi believers. Here, the locals start their morning with purification - bathing, praying and washing themselves and their clothes. Just a few hundred meters away, in another ghat, people from all over India gather to cremate their loved ones and send their souls to heaven in sacred smoke. It is a profound juxtaposition that epitomizes the entire circle of existence on the banks of the Ganges, the river of life.