First
the Ganga, the corridor, the Jyotirlinga
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
