There is a place in India at all ardent devotees of Hinduism in its many manifestations come to celebrate the end of his life. Called Varanasi (Sanskrit, Varanasi) and is at the confluence of the rivers Varuna and Asi, along the sacred Ganges.

Photography by David S. Lowry

At the site there are hundreds of sadhus (Hindu priests), sick and elderly who are on the last leg of its existence that sojourn in the same direction, to make their final prayers and ablutions in the sacred waters of Mother Ganga, between cows , buffalo, dogs, goats, monkeys, fishermen, women doing laundry and children laughing and playing happily while bathing in the river, apparently oblivious to everything going on around them. (más…)

The Tinenca de benifassà nature park stretches across the upper headwaters of the Rivers Senia and Tastavins, which cut through the final bastions of the Iberian System in the district of El baix Maestrat in Castellón (The Valencian Community). The picturesque villages of Castell de cabres, and bel constitute the human heartlands of this rugged landscape. Named alter the Cistercian monastery of santa Maria de Benifassà, these lands, one traditionally controlled by the abbot, are now one of the most beautiful natural park in the Region of Valencia. (más…)