The back yard...

Varanasi, the Holy City

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March 6th 2008
The train was, just like almost everything else in India, running badly late. We had been scheduled to arrive at 9am but eventually rolled into Varanasi Junction station well after lunchtime, after sixteen hours spent on the train almost continuously (except the odd walk along the track when the train had stopped). We'd spent the morning wandering the train, chatting to the Aussies and Israelis, d ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more