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From Buddhist Temples to Erotic Sculptures

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April 6th 2009
We'll start this post off by explaining how we almost didn't make it out of Varanasi. Since we were sick most of the time, we wanted to spend a few extra days there. The morning of our intended departure (at 10:20am) we were still debating if we should pull Bodhgaya from our trip altogether. We were looking online for routes to Puri, but realized it was going to be much more complicated than we an ... 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