
We watched people cleaning their teeth and generally abluting; when we told Tim Shackly (our doctor) we were going for a dip he said "oh good, that'll be two patients off my list"
We were surprised the different races and creeds, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists & Jews all live in relative harmony at the moment and all believe in the benefits of Ma Ganges.
It all seems to defy logic, the river is quite heavily polluted, a lady told me there was a buffalo floating; there are lots of fish in there, the fishermen do ok from it, but it can't possibly be safe to drink, and oh my Lord I hope we didn't.
When we were witnessing a cremation, something I really didn't want to see but Pintoo insisted, a family member of the deceased threw a leg bone ino the river and Richard was heard to sing, "and that's not connected to the thigh bone"!,,sorry :)
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