View from our guest house, Varanasi

Delhi to Varanasi

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July 15th 2013
Read any travel book, or talk to people who have been, and they will tell you: Rule #1 when traveling to New Delhi: “Watch out for scams”. We were both well aware of this; however, upon our arrival in New Delhi, within mere minutes of stepping out of the train station, we were taken for a doozy. We left the train station in search of the ‘Grand Bazaar”, which we knew was only a five minu ... 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