Morning prayer at the Ghats

Welcome to India - 1st stop Varanasi

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April 5th 2009
I think everybody who comes to India gets royally ripped off at least once and we were expecting it to happen somewhere along the line. Unfortunately we managed to get screwed over after being in the country for just five minutes. We stumbled over the Nepal/India border, after an eight hour bus ride from Pokhara, wide eyed in wonderment and excitement. INDIA! They obviously saw us coming and we we ... 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