Varanasi Trip Overview
Musians are immortalized in the Academy Award winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s Apu Sansar (The World of Apu). With few changes in these historic lanes over the years you too may slip into the world of Apu!
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Varanasi, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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Musians are immortalized in the Academy Award winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s Apu Sansar (The World of Apu). With few changes in these historic lanes over the years you too may slip into the world of Apu!
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Stop At: Varanasi Remembrances, Man Mandir Dashashwmedh D 15/69 Near Shree Cafe, Varanasi 221001 India
This Walk endeavours to showcase the evolution of Indian classical music in Varanasi over 5000 years! The experience offers opportunities to see the living quarters of one of the famous Indian classical musicians like Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai maestro), Pandit Ravi Shankar (Sitar maestro), Girija Devi (Indian classical music singer) etc.
Walk in the narrow alleys of Bengali Tola listening to the sounds of Indian classical music wafting through air. Some of the streets here have shops selling finest hand-made traditional Indian musical instruments such as sitar, tabla, flute, sarod, harmonium etc. The shopkeepers will briefly demonstrate how different instruments are played. At the end of the walk, stop at a local musician’s family home to enjoy a cup of tea over introduction to basics of Indian Classical Music.
Duration: 1 hour
