Ganger, Mother Shiver. Varanasi.

Confronting the Ganga, Mother River.

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June 23rd 2007
Well I made it to Varanasi, it turned out to be an 18hr train journey from Agra, but it wasn’t so bad, I have become somewhat immune to long distance travel now, and I just sat by the window most of the journey watching the rice fields roll by, still trying to acclimatise to India. Varanasi is entwined with the banks of the Ganga (GangesMother River) river. Both the river and the city are cons ... 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