Sleeper service to Varanasi

Varanasi & The Ganga

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June 11th 2010
As much as Pokhara was enjoyed it was time to roll on. Next stop India. It's a bit of a tricky commute. 6-7 hours on a 'tourist bus' to Sunauli (we spent most of that on the roof seeing as it was a nice day). A 4km rickshaw or jeep transfer to the border (again we took the roof option on a jeep). Then it's immigration formalities. We were a day over on our Nepali visa, popular opinion is tha ... 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