A room with a view

Spring Break in Varanasi

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April 7th 2013
For Spring break I was going to stay in Sikkim with Nicole. It is absolutely beautiful there! Sarah, an American grad students helping us, offered her apartment in Varanasi to Lily, Nicole, and I. So we spent two more days in Gangtok, Sikkim then took an overnight train to Varanasi. It was so nice to have a space all to ourselves. We all did want we wanted, reading and visiting friends. Hemant 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