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Varanasi (including a lot of pictures)

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February 3rd 2015
We took the overnight train from New Delhi to Varanasi. The platform was crowded with people....whole families sitting on rugs laid out, or straight down on the platform to await the train. We are very very lucky to be wealthy westerners able to travel in the comfort of a first class lockable sleeping cabin for 2, which even has an electric socket for recharging phones etc! (but by international s ... 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