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Few Place In India Are as Colourful charismatic or Spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the Ganges river in Varanasi. The citiy of Shiva is one of the holiest places in India.
Where Hindu pilgrims come to wash away a lifetime of sins in The Ganges river. Varanasi Has Always Been an auspicious place to die , since expiring here offers moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and death) .

The city is the beating heart of the Hindu universe, crossing place between the physical and spiritual worlds, and the Ganges is views as a river of salvation, an a everlasting symbol of hope to past , present and future generations. the magical but sometimes over whelming city is where most intimate rituals of life and death place in public on the city's ghat's. The accessibility to the practices of an ancient but still living religious tradition is what captivates many visitors, and a walk along the ghats or a boat ride on the river is one of India's most absorbing experiences

Varanasi has been a centre of learning and civilization for over 2000 years, and claims to be one of the oldest living cities in the world mark twain wrote that " Benares is older than history, Older than tradition, older even than legend , and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
It history dates back to 1400 BC , But it was around the 8th century AD that Varanasi rose in Prominence when Shankaracharya, a reformer of Hinduism , Established Shiva worship as the principal sect. Afghans destroyed Varnaasi around AD 1300,After laying waste to nearby Sarnath , But the fanatical Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was the most destructive looting and destroying almost all the temple , The old city of Varanasi look antique , but few buildings are more than a couple of hundred years old.