Kashi guides

🛶Boat rides in Kashi

A boat ride on the Ganga at sunrise or during the evening Ganga Aarti is the signature Kashi experience. Here are fair rates, the best times, and where to board.

🍢Banarasi food trail

Kashi is a paradise for street food — from a morning kachori-sabzi to late-night malaiyo. Here is what to eat, roughly what it costs, and where to find it.

🪔Dev Deepawali in Kashi

Dev Deepawali — the Diwali of the Gods on Kartik Purnima — is Kashi's grandest night, when every ghat from Assi to Raj Ghat is lit with lakhs of earthen diyas and the Ganga itself seems to glow.

🔱Mahashivratri at Kashi Vishwanath

Mahashivratri — the great night of Shiva — is the most important night at Kashi Vishwanath, in Shiva's own city. Devotees queue through the night for darshan and abhishek.

🏹Ramnagar Ramlila

The month-long Ramlila of Ramnagar, patronised by the royal family of Banaras for nearly two centuries, is a living tradition staged across the town — by lamplight, with no microphones.