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Old February 5th, 2007, 03:45 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
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Default Looking for Hotel in Varanasi

On Feb 4, 5:33 pm, "Peter Webb" webbfamily-
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"giumak" wrote in message

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Hello, I'm going to stay in Varanasi (India) for afew days. Does anybody
know a good, not too much expensive, well located hotel? Contacts for
rooms reservation?
Suggestions, experiences about visiting Varanasi ?


If you are into Scuba diving, try any of the dive shops on the Ganges in the
old part of town.



This poster is joking. I have never heard of diving in the Ganges and
the water has been tested there and found to have a huge amount of the
E. coli bacteria because of the raw waste that is put into it.

Finding a hotel that is not a rip-off there can be hard.

one good one is the Vishnu Guest House, but many guest house give
themselves similar names to trade on the fame of this one. It is right
at the top of the ghats, looking out on the river, and has a vishnu
temple on the premises.

dont trust your rick shaw man to take you there because he will not
want to go through the narrow streets and he will take you to a copy-
cat vishnu hotel.

another good place is Sunshine guest house, lower down in the poorer
section of town, just at the top of the steps that lead down to the
place where outcasts are cremated.

sarp