Mar 26 - Apr 5 So, I'm still quite a bit behind updating the blog. At least I think I should wrap up the India part of the blog and share a few stories from my last stop - Varanasi. I honestly didn't have high expectations of Varanasi, but I was pleasantly proven wrong by this wonderful city! The city is ancient, the people are lovely, the streets are narrow and filled with an assortment of aromas - some delicious, like the perfumes, incense, and bidis (you know, those cheap cigarettes wrapped with leaves instead of paper), or the deep fried street food treats; some not so delicious aromas, like the nauseating smell of ghee (clarified butter) and curd being made on the street side, or burning garbage and funk of the Ganga river. There
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