My last city in India. People go here to gawk at Hindus bathing themselves in the Ganga, their holiest river, or so I think I know. It seems a particularly non-PC thing to do, but I suppose if they wanted to stop people from gawking, they could pull a Saudi Arabia and make Varanasi completely off-limits to non-Hindus, just as Mecca and Medina are for infidels.

Still, it's jolly good fun taking a boat ride and watching them bathe in this fetid, poisonous river. And the architecture of the ghats (the bathing stairs) and the palaces and temples that surround them is amazing. It's also a very interesting city to walk around. REmeinded me of Madurai, where I went last year to gawk at Hindus performing sacred rituals.

Should people gawk at people performing religious rituals? Please advise.