Close to Varanasi is Sarnath, a city rich in ancient culture. It was here we found archaelogical ruins, the Nichiren Shu Horinji Temple with its wooden Buddha, the Mulagandha Kuty Vihara Temple with its golden Buddha, the Deer Park where Buddha gave his first sermon, silk weavers and a cobra charmer! The first of the fog/smog/haze began to haunt us in Varanasi and Sarnath.