Taste and Craft: Food Walk and Silk Weavers

Highlights

• Street food breakfast: kachori, jalebi, lassi
• The silk weavers’ neighbourhood and a master weaver’s home
• Time to rest or shop between the two
• The everyday Varanasi most visitors miss

What you will do

Start the day the Varanasi way, with kachori and jalebi on the street, then a walk through the lanes to the weavers’ neighbourhood. You see the pit looms at work and talk with the families who weave Banarasi silk. No shop at the end unless you ask for one.

This day combines

• Food and Local Markets Tour2½ hours
• The Silk Weavers of Banaras3 hours

How the time goes

1. MorningPickup, street food breakfast
2. Late morningLanes and markets on the way
3. MiddayBreak
4. AfternoonWeavers’ neighbourhood and looms
5. Late afternoonBack to your hotel

Meeting point

Shiva picks you up at your hotel or guesthouse in Varanasi. Staying near the ghats, where cars cannot go? He meets you at the nearest landmark.

Good to know

• Looms rest on Fridays in many weaving families.
• Come hungry.

Best for

Food and craft lovers, travellers on their second or third day.

Meals and tips

Meals are never included, unless the page says so. Shiva can suggest where to eat, and you pay at the stall or restaurant.

Tips are optional. If a tip is useful, Shiva tells you where, how, when and how much, and only then. Nothing else is extra: everything not listed above is included in the price.