The Ghats

Varanasi

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December 5th 2008
We only had one day here before we flew to Kathmandu so we decided to do the really touristy thing of taking a 1 day all in tour from dawn till dusk! It was actually really fun! We started off with a dawn boat ride on the ganges which is horribly polluted but we did see a dolphin, it was alive, not a plastic model!! We got to see people swimming and washing and generally life there as well as t ... 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