Interesting facts about Varanasi

Varanasi is in the state of Uttar Pradesh (North India).

One of the oldest continuously lived-in cities on earth, laid along 88 ghats on the Ganga: sunrise boats, the evening aarti at Dashashwamedh, and the cremation fires at Manikarnika that never go out. Ten kilometres away at Sarnath the Buddha gave his first sermon.