There are places you visit. In Varanasi, you mostly watch things unfold.
Every corner of it already looks staged the light, the smoke, the boats, the sheer number of things happening at once on the ghats.
Somewhere around the second morning, I stopped taking regular photos and started treating them like film stills. If a city hands you scenes like this for free, the least you can do is add subtitles.
Here are a few clicks.
Highlight of the entire trip was the early morning boat ride at the Ganges.