This photo is taken from our hotel, Hotel Temple on Ganges, which is in Assi Ghat. This is a view towards the main ghat. We arrived in Varanasi yesterday afternoon and are leaving tonight (we hope) on the night train at 11:30pm.  (Maybe – that’s what it says on the t

Our boat was called the Aton and was run by Selection Hotel. It's not a conventional cruise boat, it's more like a floating hotel. The next day the horror of our cruise began.…