Varanasi - On The Ganges-Monday 20 Feb
February 20th 2006 This city of 1.5 million is situated on the River Ganges where, over a 7 kilometre bend, it turns north west, and then south east, for its final flow, about 500 miles to the Bay of Bengal. Varanasi, where the two rivers, Varna and Assi, meet the Ganges, is some 475 miles south east of Delhi, the national capital.
As a city-site, it is old, really old; arguably the oldest continuous city- site kno
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