Sunrise on the river

Varanasi

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February 26th 2010
We left the magnificence of the Taj Mahal and the chaos of Agra, and continued on to Varanasi. We stepped off our overnight train,and soon found ourselves in a rickshaw in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam. It took the better part of a horn honking, fume-filled hour to make it to the old part of the city by the holy Ganges, but we finally made it. We walked through the narrow, labyrinthine streets ... 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