Local train leaving Kolkata station

a few glitches, but this is India

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June 6th 2008
So we are currently in Varanasi. More on that later, this is the long route we took to get here. We ended up leaving Kolkata on a night train to the town of Gaya from where we could catch rickshaw to Bodhgaya (the city where Prince Siddartho reached enlightenment and became Buddha). Waited at the hot, balmy train station for hours after spending an afternoon walking around in the heat. There ... 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