Photos of Varanasi, India
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Mother Ganga, Goddess of the Ganges River, at a temple along the river near Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India.
A typically adorable toddler watches as a nurse from the French NGO Agir pour Benares tends to a girl with a "black-eye" at a free health clinic, at the Burning Ghats in Varanasi, India.
An idol is covered up and "put to sleep for the night" at a temple near Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India.
Buddha in a temple at the Thai Buddha Vihar in Sarnath, India. Sarnath, just north of Varanasi, is where the Buddha gave his first sermon, and is a modern day pilgrimage site.
Two Hindu women shave their heads and bathe in the Ganges River as part of a religious ritual, Varanasi, India.