Assi Ghat is the southernmost

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. To most visitors to Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and tourists live. With hosting Subah-e-Banaras in the morning, assi ghat provides a spectacular notion of river Ganga.

Tourism at Assi Ghat

Assi Ghat is the southernmost ghat in Varanasi. It is one of the biggest ghats of Varanasi and most popular one. To most visitors to Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and tourists live. Assi Ghat is one of the ghats often visited for recreation and during festivals. On typical days about 300 people visit every hour in the mornings, and on festival days 2500 people arrive per hour. Most of the people visiting the ghat on usual days are students from the nearby

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. The ghat accommodates about 22,500 people at once during festivals like

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. During iconic Dev Deepawali festival, more than 600,000 tourists visit the ghat. There are a lot of activities for tourists to engage in at the ghat. Visitors can go for boat rides, go up in a hot-air balloon for an aerial view of Assi ghat, enjoy the daily talent show in the evening or eat at one of the many restaurants and cafes in the area. An evening at Assi Ghat

Hindus believe that it was at Assi Ghat that

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left for his heavenly abode. After the

2010 Varanasi bombing The 2010 Varanasi bombing was a bombing, blast that occurred on 7 December 2010, in one of the holiest Hindu cities, Varanasi. The explosion occurred at Sheetla Ghat, adjacent to the main Dashashwamedh Ghat, where the sunset ''aarti'', the eve ...

the city commissioned extra police to the Assi Ghat neighborhood in order to more quickly resolve problems which tourists might have.

''Subah-e-Banaras''

''Subah-e-Banaras'', an early morning session before dawn (sunrise) started on 2014 by Minister of State, Uttar Pradesh Government. A committee has been constituted to glorify and propagate the celestial moments of ''Subah-e-Banaras'' for spiritual development. People from all walks of life joined hands together to perpetuate the early hour's effort to feel within existence of Almighty and grandeur of Nature. It is daily session which last for 2 hours and is free of cost.

Activities

# Morning

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enchanting and Nature’s welcome. # Vedic Yagya. # Tribute to five elements of life, Pancha Tattva. # Music – Morning Raga, Classical/Semi classical by expert artists. #

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classes - To shape perfectly physically as well metaphysically.

In popular culture

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's Hindi novel '' Kashi Ka Assi'' is set in the

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near the ghat. The novel is being adapted as '' Mohalla Assi'', a 2018

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film starring Sunny Deol and directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, which is set in the ''

'' (locality) around Assi Ghat. # Raanjhanaa, a 2013 film which is also a

-based story, also has scenes of the "Assi Ghat". # Masaan, a 2015

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directed by Neeraj Ghaywan has scenes of Vatika Cafe of the Assi Ghat.

References

External links

* {{commonscat, Assi Ghat Ghats in Varanasi