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Varanasi: City of life, death, and everything in between

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April 3rd 2007
We made it to Varanasi in the morning of March 26th, after a very long 42 hours on a train from Mamallapuram. Kerstin, Jeff and I befriended an Austrian guy (Pavel) on the way, and the four of us decided to get a hotel together in town. We'd read in our guidebook that Varanasi was literally the worst place in India for touts, and any attempt to make it our hotel of choice by simply asking a ricksh ... 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