Varanasi and the Ganges River
The city of Varanasi is so much different than America. The people look and do things differently. It is a very holy city in Hinduism. Some people cover there heads in cloth. Underneath this cloth is their hair, but you may not know that the hair hangs down past the ground sometimes! In this city there are railroad systems that were built by the British when they ruled India. Each compartment holds 4 people and in the compartments there are fold down beds. The climate in the city is mainly humid and subtropical. Summers are long and range from April to October. The average summer temperatures are 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Winters go on from December to February and the temperatures range from 41 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. The average rainfall is a whopping 44 inches a year. This city also has an education system usually taught in Hindu or English. These are run by either state government or a private organization. Now going on to the Ganges River. Their are stairs leading down to the river called ghats. There are over 100 of them. There are also cremation ghats where the dead bodies burn and are then thrown in the river. The people believe that the river is filled with sacred water so they do almost everything in the Ganges. The bathe in it, wash their clothes in it, and so many other daily things people do. This water is polluted with chromium and other chemicals leaking in from leather factories, human wastes, and even water borne illness! Pipes leading into the river pour sewage in daily. There are also water buffaloes roaming through the water on occasions!
February 25th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
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