- Shivala Ghat is one of the eighty-four ghats in Varanasi, India, and is an important religiou...
- Varanasi. It’s one of the holiest pilgrimage cities in India. Travelers either love it or hate it. With the mother Ganga running through it, it’s got a powerful Shiva-ite vibe.
- The city is a centre of arts and crafts and of music and dance. Varanasi is famous for its production of silks and brocades with gold and silver thread work.
- The city's religious importance continued to grow in the 8th century, when Adi Shankara established the worship of Shiva as an official sect of Varanasi.
- Known as the world’s oldest and continually inhabited city, Varanasi is a time-honoured city of spiritual bliss and historic remnants.
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- 5Mention in Pujaripali Stone Inscription of Gopaladeva. 6History. 7Indian Origin Places in Burma. 8Visit of Varanasi by Xuanzang in 637 AD.
- Being a place of religious significance to many Indians, Varanasi is well connected to many parts of the country by road, rail and air.
- We arrived in Varanasi on a night train from New Delhi, and it was obvious from our initial tuk-tuk ride to our hotel that the visit to Varanasi would be different.
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