 | Scammed within 10 minutes of getting to India
2009-11-08, Varanasi, India. By: ldryden | | Well Hello friends,
It took me and Laura all of ten minutes to get ripped off for the first time in this beautiful new country. After crossing the border from Nepal and then selecting a nice lookin... |
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 | Varanasi
2009-01-10, Varanasi, India. By: yogibeari | | Varanasi – famous for the Ganges River and Music.
The flight was delayed and arrived at Lal Bahashastri airport late afternoon. It was the last flight in and they were closing the airport so everyt... |
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 | Wild to Wild
2007-02-04, Varanasi, India. By: sbfeley | | Namaste, Namascar, Hullo,
How is everyone, wherever you may be in the world?!?! I hope that you are well. Mich and I are happy and mostly healthy. We are in Varanasi, one of the oldest cities in... |
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 | Spiritual Varanasi
2006-09-24, Varanasi, India. By: kfisher | | Hello TEC-Y, family and friends,
Zoe and I arrived in Varanasi yesterday and are enjoying life in this holy city. Varanasi is an ancient city previously cited in Hindu scripture. The Ganges River i... |
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 | Varanasi is Very Nicey
2006-07-01, Varanasi, India. By: guelf | | So the 40 hours on the train turned out to be barely 35 which wizzed by in no time. lots of snoozing and crunchy munchy snacks. actually it was kind of like one big party. people walking up and down t... |
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 | Brief India Update
2006-06-06, Varanasi, India. By: seasiateam | | Here's what's happened to our team in recent weeks:
Turns out Elya had to have her appendix removed and we all stayed in Bangkok a few extra days. Kayla was also ill and needed to recover as well,... |
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 | Goodbye Varanasi
2005-08-07, Varanasi, India. By: witcombe | | Varanasi has been great, but its time to leave. Ive booked a ticket on a train and will head to Delhi on the overnight train to sort out my Ghana Visa, and as soon as that is done I am catching a tra... |
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 | The BLACK MONKEY of Varanasi
2005-08-06, Varanasi, India. By: witcombe | | Well I have been in Varanasi for nearly a week now, and it has been a good experience. A very draining one, but enjoyable and eye-opening. Soon after writing the last email I was walking along the s... |
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| I now understand what ''OFF SEASON'' means.
2005-08-02, Varanasi, India. By: witcombe | | Nadia and I left Kathmandu, bound for Varanasi, on Saturday evening, around 6pm. We were advised to take the overnight bus, because you can sleep on the trip. This was our first mistake. The 7 hour... |
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 | Picture this....
2005-02-02, Varanasi, India. By: rach2005 | | Well it's taken nearly three months, but I've finally gotten my act together to get my pictures on the web. No journal entries I'm afraid, as I'm too lazy, but I'll try and keep the photos updated as ... |
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 | Ganges River - Varanasi
2004-11-09, Varanasi, India. By: seta76 | | Our 14 hour overnight train ride brought us to the holy city of Varanasi. The 3-tier sleeping bunks were the best in the entire train, that is they were cushioned. The compartments are not like the ... |
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 | Mkhun's poem
2004-03-19, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | You are killing me
Slowly poisoning me with your touch
At every encounter I want more
You leave me depressed by passion
No one can know.
Do you fear me?
Not here.
Not ever?
Jus... |
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| Stalkers but normal day
2004-02-17, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | This morning I woke up late and was going to walk to Assi alone but I met a man who asked me to walk with him there. I said "okay" and we started walking. We bumped into Rohit, Sumit and Sushil at Ti... |
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| Waterfalls
2004-02-15, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | Today Rajesh (Indian), Rajesh (foreigner), Rthun, Vishvanath, Vijay, Marie, Christina, Sonu, 2 swedish girls and I all went to Lakuniaderi Falls (waterfalls) for the day. The trip was, in itself, ver... |
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| Stereotypes and Fears
2004-01-15, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | today i had an interesting run-in with one of my good friends here. i've made friends with an entire family of indians and today one of them decided to walk with me from their house to two gift shops... |
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 | wandering
2004-01-12, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | so yesterday we went to see some waterfalls and had a really interesting time. on the way we stopped to pick up some cakes of cow shit (that they use as charcoal) and some plastic cups. we had alrea... |
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 | All hell breaks loose
2004-01-10, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | so yesterday it happened again - my friends warned me that i'm endangering them. you see in india there's this funny little law that says that indians can't be seen with foreigners unless the indian ... |
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| Finally back
2004-01-08, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | So, yesterday I finally reached what I am now calling "home" - varanasi that is. seeing as i've been here since september and i don't really have any place else to call home i guess i'll just have to... |
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 | Morning on the Ganges
2003-12-04, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | I woke up and looked at my alarm clock. It was 6:30am and I was late. Why hadn't my alarm gone off? what had happened? I pondered this idea for a little while as I rushed to throw off my clothes a... |
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 | Welcome
2003-12-02, Varanasi, India. By: NCIndia | | I've noticed that while traveling I seem to have lost contact with some of my friends. The reason for this (in my opinion) being they don't understand what I'm going through or what's going on in my l... |
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 | benares-kathmandu by bus
2001-11-03, varanasi, India. By: lomotravel | | again, another early morning, a funny breakfast in what looked like a building site (included in the price of the bus ticket), then setting off on the bus that would keep us onboard for the next 11 ho... |
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 | Holy Shit.
2001-10-12, Varanasi, India. By: cpeely | | Well to be more precise.. lots of shit in a holy river. It's the weirdest thing to see corpses of animals, cremations, sewage and a good layer of scum on the water.... your gaze then comes to rest on... |
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| All the Nan you can eat...
2001-10-11, Varanasi, India. By: cpeely | | Yep it's true.. if you're an Indian food fan then here is the place you come to die... either of pucking you guts of filling them I would suspect. Dependant on how close to the river your washing is ... |
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