Har-Ki-Pairi Ghat

Thousands of worshippers gather every evening on the banks of the river ganges to watch the priests perform a river worship cremony called 'Ganga aarti'. Some worshippers set banana boats full of flowers and candles afloat, only for them to capsize several yards dowstream!

Beak's on the Wagon

May 20th 2007
Our rather expensive taxi eventually found our destination and we checked into a place called Bhaj Govindam. Quite a nice place with a few bamboo huts on the bank of the Ganges (cool). It was still very early and we tried to stay up but we were falling asleep on the lawn - so we decided to have a nap... Got up around 11:00 and headed out for a day of sightseeing. Went to a temple called Mans ... 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

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