Ganges

Varanasi – Maybe the Oldest Living City on this Earth?

  • Posted on: 30 March 2010
  • By: Aline Dobbie

The stench of history and the detritus of millennia assailed me as I picked my way gingerly towards the boat at the water’s edge of the ghat.  This spiritual place of pilgrimage and prayer has long fascinated me but I had never been in my adult life. Varanasi is almost in the centre of northern India but even today though accessible by train it only has a limited connection by air which is a shame.