Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.

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Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi.

Copyright: RANDY OLSON
Image Size: 6571x4381 / 604.0MB
Keywords: asia, backlit, color image, day, environmental issues, garbage, incidental people, india, varanasi, land pollution, outdoors, photography, rubbish, silhouettes, trash, trash pickers
Contained in galleries: Plastic or Planet? National Geographic magazine 3/2018

Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography