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The Twelve Days of Christmas - Varanasi Style!

December 25th 2009
"Brace yourself. You're about to enter one of the most blindingly colourful, unrelentingly chaotic, and unapologetically indiscreet places on earth. Varanasi takes no prisoners. But if you're ready for it, this may just turn out to be your favourite stop of all." (Lonely Planet guidebook) Nothing can seem to prepare you for what Varanasi, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on ea ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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