Note: We have finally successfully uploaded some photos!! Please revisit all previous entries to catch up on them... We arrived in Varanasi train station around mid-day on Monday, April 18, a large, chaotic station brimming with people on the go, selling "street food", produce and crafts, or camped out on the expansive floors. It was hard to know if the campers were waiting for a train or living in the station. We took a motorized rickshaw, the 3-wheeled, green and yellow "tuk-tuks", to our hotel through the greatest driving cacophony of blaring horns, congestion, and speed we've ever known. It feels like "bumper cars" in the amusement park only, somehow, magically, we never crash into each other. There are no traffic lights in this city of over 1,000,000 people, so drivers (on vehicles of every kind
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