Victoria Station

(Still) In the Big City

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December 21st 2006
The train trip from Varanasi to Mumbai was about 30 hours nonstop, and it was actually pretty amazing. We were in a sleeper with a couple other tourists and a very young Indian family, with a cute and highly energetic little boy named Om. We ate crappy train food and read and watched the beautiful landscape roll by through the window. Then Jason showed me the real treat. On every train trip we hav ... 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