Sunset behind the Taj

Dodging Corpses and Seeking Tigers

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October 10th 2015
We started our time in North India in Varanasi. After relaxing in Kerala, this was quite a shock to the system! Varanasi is completely, fantastically, wonderfully crazy - India concentrated and distilled. The old town is a maze of tiny alleyways, filled with people, monkeys, street vendors, goats, stalls, cows, motorbikes, restaurants, dogs... Beside it all runs the holy (and filthy) River Ganges, ... read more

Asia » India

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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