really long line

The Taj Mahal and Train Agra-vation

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November 2nd 2006
So being that it is high season for tourists, getting a train from Varanasi to Agra was a little bit harder than we expected. After much hassle, we realized that we would have to leave our sheltered world of air conditioned sleeper berths and brave the "real" indian rail system. i say "real" in parenthesis because we still got a sleeper berth, just the crappy one....and it still isn't as terrify ... 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