Varanasi (Banares), northern India. Out on the water
in a small boat at dawn on the river Ganges. Just the three of us,
me, Lynette and a teenage boy on the oars. As the sun rose, tens of
thousands of Hindu worshippers begin softly chanting their praises.
The haunting, mesmerising sound lasted ten minutes or more, followed
by a frantic blessing of offerings. The crowds were dense, around 30
deep. Those that couldn't get to the waters edge passed their baskets
of offerings down to the river to be splashed with the sacred water.
