Varanasi Sunrise

Namaste

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March 29th 2009
Since we're now a few posts into this blog, we're not going to bother with trying to think of an "introduction" for each one. We'll just get right to the good stuff! We left off waiting for a train in Agra. Which, by the way, was the absolute longest wait of our lives. We couldn't get out of that place fast enough! It smelled terrible, it was crawling with tour groups, and the people there only ... 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