Varansai - Feb 20

Varanasi - On The Ganges-Monday 20 Feb

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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 ... 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