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Blog: Varanasi, Darjeeling and Sikkim
Date: November 7th 2007

Yet another entry… typed in the wonderfully tech. towns of Gangtok, Sikkim; Darjeeling, West Bengal; and Siliguri, West Bengal. It has taken several attempts to load the photos with the maddening slow connections. But… we came from further south, so we’ll start there… in Varanasi (aka Very Nasty). We were well warned of Varanasi’s high hassle level, and were pleasantly surprised to ... read more


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