Benares 100 years ago

Looking at the old photos we can see for our selves how the city stays the same through hundreds of years.

Varanasis, just like in the 1900s, hide from the sun in the shade of bamboo umbrellas offering prayers for the dead souls on the ghats, bathe in sacred Ganges, burn at Manikarnika.

The only thing that has changed - there were much more trees back there, and less people.

photos from oldindianphotos.blogspot.com