Sunrise over the Ganges

Wanderings in India - 8 - Varanasi

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November 23rd 2013
Accommodation - Radisson Hotel Weather - Hot & sunny 28C What an experience Varanasi was!! We thought we had already seen much that India had to throw at us - but no not at all. Varanasi is India on steroids - chaotic, manic, frenetic, noisy - everything we had experienced but greatly magnified - but that is what Varanasi is all about! The sunrise boat trip on the Ganges was sensational - ... 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