varanasi street...

holy city...

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November 21st 2006
spent three days in varanasi... more than enough ;-) i believe it is one of the oldest cities and you can tell, tonnes of character... the main attraction was to walk up and down the ghats (basically steps leading down into the ganges river (maa ganga, mother river)... these ghats are used for many things from bathing to laundry to religious rituals to burning of corpses... the burning ghat was ... 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