Holi in varanasi

anyone experienced Holi Festival in North India?? Maybe only in Vrindavan it is more wild and crazy then in Varanasi. We looked our self inside the hotel room, but even there the drunken holikas where trying to enter... it is the festival of spring, colours are thrown on each other on that day... but hey we are in the year 2007: people get drunk and beat each other, tourist are better doing in home in that day otherwise you are merged into all kinds of liquids (colour water, pie water, stool water, engine oil,etc...) and will never forget that day... 1992 i was foolish engough to celebrate here in varanasi with the locals, but my experience was doomed to be tarred and spring mounted... so better try to avoid that day in the north except you like tar! That picture was taken from our hotel room, while the kids throw colours from the roof on people down