The Taj on Christmas Morning

Agra, Varanasi, and Rural India

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January 7th 2011
The second half of our tour in India took us to Agra (home of the Taj Mahal), Varanasi (a famous city on the Ganges River) and two small towns in rural India. Rural India Part 1 Our first stop in rural India was the small village of Bhajdajar and we arrived about noon. We got off the bus and had about a 10 minute walk through the village to the hotel. We are staying at a Heritage Ho ... 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