Wishing Candles

The City Where People Come to Die

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June 3rd 2008
I arrived smoothly in Varanasi yesterday morning after what started out to be a nice train ride because of the beautiful scenery but wasn't too good at night because I had a lower bunk and people kept sitting on my bunk in the middle of the night and not wanting to move, keeping me from sleeping soundly for more than like a half hour at a time. Oh well. Yesterday I first visited the Cremation ... 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