Kashi Vishwanath TempleLaid out in the order pilgrims move through it.

1. Dashashwamedh GhatCome at first light. Kashi custom puts the bath before the darshan. This is the best known of the city's bathing ghats, and the one the evening Ganga Aarti is held at.on the riverfront.
2. Vishwanath CorridorThe wide paved approach built to join the riverfront to the temple. It replaced the lanes pilgrims used to squeeze through, and it is the approach from the river side; the gates on the Godowlia side are the other main way in.the corridor has its own ghat gate, north along the riverfront from Dashashwamedh — walk up to it rather than straight up from where you bathed.
3. Kashi VishwanathDarshan of the Jyotirlinga — Shiva as Vishwanath, Lord of the Universe. There is a general queue and a quicker booked one; which is running on your day, and what it costs, is on the temple's own site, and only there.at the head of the corridor.
4. Annapurna TempleAnnapurna is Parvati as the goddess who feeds. Kashi holds that no one in her city goes hungry, and pilgrims pair her darshan with Vishwanath's.beside the Vishwanath temple.
5. Kaal BhairavThe kotwal — the guardian of Kashi, and a shrine pilgrims include in a Kashi darshan.in a different quarter of the old city from Vishwanath, beyond the lanes around the temple — not a stroll from the gates.
6. Ganga Aarti, Dashashwamedh GhatHeld on the ghat steps every evening, lamps swung out over the river. Return to where the day began.back down to the riverfront.

1. A dawn boat along the ghatsThe bathing steps are seen from the water at first light, when the city comes down to the river.boats are taken from the main ghats.
2. Manikarnika GhatThe great cremation ghat, burning without pause. Kashi is sought as a place to die as much as a place to worship, and this is where that belief is plainly visible. Photography is not welcome here.along the riverfront from Dashashwamedh.
3. SarnathWhere the Buddha gave his first sermon after his enlightenment. The stupa and the museum sit just outside Varanasi. Check the museum's open days before you set out.outside the city to the north-east, reached by road.
4. Sankat Mochan Hanuman TempleA Hanuman temple founded, by tradition, by the poet Tulsidas, who wrote the Ramcharitmanas in this city.in the southern part of Varanasi, away from the ghats — kept for the way back so the city is crossed once, not twice.

Water, milk and offerings are poured over the Jyotirlinga while the Rudram is chanted. The temple takes bookings for it on its own site, along with its other named aartis and poojas.

Pooja and aarti bookings, and donation towards the shrine. Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust. The temple runs its own booking and donation pages — use them rather than a reseller, and take every fee and window from there.

Maha Shivaratri is the temple's great night of vigil, and Dev Deepawali fills the ghats with lamps. Both move with the Hindu calendar; the temple's own site publishes the year's dates.