Snakily at Gai Ghat - a photo on Flickriver

“Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily...”
(From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley)

This was shot before sunset at Gai Ghat along the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
The highlight there is a huge sculpted figure of a stone cow, from which the ghat got its name "Gai" (which means "cow" in Hindi) and it is symbolizing the earth.
Those two young men were standing at a few stairs below where a smaller statue of Nandi, the bull known as the gate keeper of Shiva, is facing a lingam with a snake on it.
After having a hair cut and taking a bath in the river, those friends were drying under the last rays of the sun at the time where some magic is falling.
They were enjoying this moment and didn't know that something was now watching and slowly slithering towards them...

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Taken in: India / Uttar Pradesh / Varanasi / Kotwali (show map)

Taken on: December 5, 2008

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ18, f/4.0, 1/160 sec, 17mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
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