Boys weaving a sari.

Attaching beads to a sari, the two in the back were 12, the left front 14, the right front 15.

The ghats of Varanasi.

A burning ghat, the wood piled up behind cremations (nobody is burning here, it is illegal to take pictures if they are).

Ritual bathing (puja) in the Ganga, early morning.

It is more crowded than usual during the festival.

Again, I took a lot of the same style, but it was so colorful and great sunrise light.

The dhobe-wallahs (washermen) washing clothes in the filthy ganga and drying them on the dirty dusty walkway.