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Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Varanasi September 21st 2002

It was a 26 hour train journey which was quite nice if a little dirty. My stomach got a little upset towards the end, but luckily was sharing a coach with an English guy who had been to Varenasi before and got us to the guest house nice and easily. He also provided great company on the train - of which the most lively point was when a big barrel chested Sikh decided to tell the army officer on leave from Kashmir to stop drinking on the train. The army officer happened to be on the next bunk over from me so I got a good view. It looked like it could be real trouble given the number of army folk on the train, especially when many other swarthy Sikhs came down the isle. Most of ... read more

Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Varanasi November 30th 1999

That's it, no one can say I haven't been to "real" India yet. Varanasi is Indian essence. Oh, I almost forgot - I'm back in India. It was quite strange to suddenly find myself in the States. At first I had quite a culture shock (I walked around supermarkets staring at everything in awe), but in some sense I found out it's less different than I thought (for instance this guy that sat next to me in a cafe asked me who my favorite guru is). I mainly walked around there and observed whatever happened around me, kind of like I do here. It seems that when you travel like that you find funny and strange and special things practically anywhere, even suburbia. And it turns out you can even find good old Indian logic right ... read more




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