A holy ground covered with feces! Note: No toilet paper! |
The famous ancient city of Varanasi. The Ganges is for both morning baths and cremations. |
The banks of the Ganges River, and women laying out cow dung to dry. |
Floating corpses, a common sight on the Ganges! |
The famous morning bathing by the Ganges, washing as if the rotting corpse floating by was nothing! |
Corpses…as if they were nothing…sigh! |
A body floating by a wharf. |
Bodies abandoned at the Ganges River. |
A dead elderly man by the Ganges River. |
Here comes the close-up!!!! Note the flies!!!! |
An old man also comes to bathe. |
Bathing in the corpse-filled Ganges! |
you are responsible for yourself… |
Sunset, rotting corpse, rowing and enjoying the beautiful scenery. |
A person more frightening than the rotting corpses and old leper! Seems to be someone who carries dead bodies professionally. |
Not only do [they] wash and bathe in the Ganges River where rotting corpses float about, [they] also drink from it. My god, I can’t take it anymore! |
Rotting corpse on the shore. |
Wild dogs freely tearing their food off a rotting corpse. |
Corpses on the Ganges River, giving off an offensive rotting stench. |
Dog. Crows. Fighting for a child’s head as food. Dog victorious. |
A rotting body on the banks of the Ganges River. |
An elderly person doing morning exercises, technical difficulty rating 3.0, far higher than the Tai-chi exercises of old men and women in [China's] parks. |
Ganges River morning bathing, how can this water be used for brushing teeth? |