Indian river cruises: Down the Ganges with G Adventures

By Louise Southerden
March 5 2017 - 12:15am
The Hooghly (Ganges) river sustains a 10th of the world's population. Here people take their morning ritual in the ghat near the Dakshineswar Kali Temple in Kolkata. Photo: Zvonimir Atletic / Alamy Stock Photo
The Hooghly (Ganges) river sustains a 10th of the world's population. Here people take their morning ritual in the ghat near the Dakshineswar Kali Temple in Kolkata. Photo: Zvonimir Atletic / Alamy Stock Photo
An effigy of Hindu goddess Durga is thrown into the Ganges at the end of a festival. Photo: Louise Southerden
An effigy of Hindu goddess Durga is thrown into the Ganges at the end of a festival. Photo: Louise Southerden
MV Varuna on the River Ganges. Photo: Louise Southerden
MV Varuna on the River Ganges. Photo: Louise Southerden
Cane chairs on the top deck. Photo: Louise Southerden
Cane chairs on the top deck. Photo: Louise Southerden

It's the middle of a steamy, east Indian day and I'm reading Rudyard Kipling, a cloth-bound book of his short stories I'd found in the ship's library that morning, while sipping Darjeeling tea from a white china cup on the deck of a riverboat cruising slowly down the Ganges.

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