Across the Ganges

Kite festivities

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January 16th 2007
Woohoo, we found a new Varanasi... we checked into a new hotel in the vain hope that it was our last one that was prolonging the illnesses but this new one is super duper! We're 4 floors up, so it's quite a bit of trecking to and fro but it's worth it for the hair raising fifth flight up (there's no barrier between us and pretty much the ground floor) as when on the roof, you can see the whole of ... 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