The Holy City
September 6th 2008 Varnasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and it is the relentless, merciless continuity of this habitation that gives the city its unique flavor. This is not a Brugges or a Colonial Williamsburg, scrubbed clean and made palatable for tourists. Varanasi is loud. It smells bad. Traffic, and the resulting smog, is overpowering. Within minutes of our arrival, our throat
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