The Sacred Ghats of Varanasi

In Varanasi, the river is not a view but a way of life — and the ghats are where the city meets the water.

Stretching in a gentle arc on the western bank of the Ganges, the ghats of Kashi have been the stage of Indian spiritual life for millennia. Pilgrims bathe at first light, priests perform the evening aarti, and lives both begin and end at the water's edge.

Each ghat below carries its own story — a palace, an observatory, a poet, a sacred flame. Explore the collection, and let us compose a private cruise that drifts past them all.