The Taj Mahal

Varanasi, Agra and the Taj Mahal and Jaipur

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January 11th 2007
Since a week we are in India. We took a night bus from Kathmandu. After the shock of how dirty it is and how crazy the people are, we figured, we might start sight seeing. Our first stop was Varanasi, where the holiest river of the Hindus is, The Ganges River. We woke up for sunrise and saw the people bathing, shaving, doing their laundry, using the toilet and crema ... 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