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Varanasi - Burning Ghats and food poisoning

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December 12th 2007
Varanasi - November 07 Varanasi is considered by Hindu's to be a very holy place and a lot of people want to die there because they believe this will break the rebirth cycle. Because of this, a lot of elderly people make the pilgrimage here and there are around 2 or 300 cremations a day. The cremations take place on the burning ghats at the side of the holy river, the Ganges. We took a boat ... 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