Live Webcams in Varanasi

Varanasi, on a bend of the Ganges in northern India, is where Hinduism keeps its oldest appointments, and the live webcams in Varanasi let you keep them too: temple sanctums a few steps from the river, and the ghats where the pilgrims, the boats and the evening lamps gather. The city keeps Indian Standard Time, UTC+5:30, with no daylight saving, so the dawn bathing hour falls around 00:30 UTC and the Ganga Aarti, the flame ceremony on the riverside, around 13:00 UTC. The temple at the heart of it, Kashi Vishwanath, is one of the twelve jyotirlingas, the holiest shrines of Shiva, and the queue for a glimpse of it runs all day. Banaras, as Indians more often call the city, is at its finest from October to March.