Cremation fires at the banks of the Ganges river in Banares (Varanasi), northern India.

When hindu people in India feel, that death is near, several of then travel to the holy town of Benares in northern India in order to be burned after their death and have their ashes thrown into the Ganges river. Day and night, the cremation fires are burning at the river bank.

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