sunrise over Ganges & a trip to the post office - Varanasi, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The Hills of Lanka, the Forts of India, the beaches of Turkey & the Kasbahs of Morocco...
Varanasi
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Man held for plotting terror strike in Varanasi
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Lucknow, July 30 (IANS) One of the about 50 terror suspects detained by the police in Uttar Pradesh following the Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts was planning a terror strike in Varanasi, the police alleged Wednesday. Police surveillance was stepped up in the state after serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad together claimed over 50 lives [...]
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Crazy bus journey.. (Pokhara - Sunauli - Varanasi) - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India more to come!
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Ghats... and an argument with the locals - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India the few pics i took in Varanasi... more to come
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Hospital Visit - Varanasi, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India We wait an hour for our food to arrive at Brown Bread Bakery. Our waiter, we're told later, left to run an errand. Leah very unwell, retches near the end of our meal, and I reluctantly agree to escort her to the hospital. This I don't want to do first because it is a waste of an entire day (forgive me!) and second because I have no natural...
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Intolerate the Intolerable - Varanasi, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India I wake before Leah and walk out the room with a foolish plan to go back to the main burning ghats to get our money back from the touts who ripped us off two days before. I've been stewing about it since then. It is already ten when I arrive at the river, but the ghats are empty. A few husband and wife teams of laundry-wallah are drying towels...
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Dairy and Burning Ghat - Varanasi, India
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India A night so hot I barely register the mosquitoes. We lie under a fan and roll in our sleep to keep from sweating through the mattress. Leah emits intermittent murmurs about air-conditioning. In the morning, I leave early to meet Viki, the boy in the corner store down the road. I've been thinking of writing an article on the dairy industry in...
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Varanasi silks to capture international markets
Timpu (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Varanasi, Jul 18: Silk industry in Varanasi is trying to regain foothold in international markets as China imposes restrictions on the export of silk products. China has reportedly imposed restrictions on the export of silk products as the recent earthquake in Sichuan province destroyed the majority of mulberry gardens in the area and China is [...]
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Varanasi I - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India The train arrives in Varanasi only four hours behind schedule. Leah still sick, vomiting through the night. Varanasi. Our eyes bulge, we pant, ancient glands strain to pump heat away from our core. We find a hotel not far from the ghats and collapse on the bed underneath the fan to watch CNN and it is only during the commercial break...
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India - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
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UNCTAD to support GI for Banarasi Silk
SPICY IP (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to a news report in the Economic Times, " Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the UNCTAD personally visited the handlooms at Varanasi earlier known as Banaras, and saw for himself the labour being put in by the artisans in weaving the traditional brocade silk sarees. " Aparantly moved by the artisans' hard work, he was reported as having said that " We would like to support the effort...
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Welome to India! Welcome to my Rickshaw! - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
RTW = Rebecca's and Thomas' World trip - the adventure of our lifetime, a trip around the world in more or less 10 months
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Holy filth - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Bulgaria to India by plane, train, bus, boat, thumb and wok, 2005-2008
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Incessant rains submerge Banaras Ghats in Varanasi
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
By Girish Kumar Dubey Varanasi, June 27 (ANI): The last three days incessant rains have left the River Ganga swollen in Varanasi and has led to the submergence of the famous bathing Ghats and several temples situated along the banks here. The water level has risen so much that the steps where daily rituals are performed and [...]
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Grand India Tour - Hy, India
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hy, India Duration: 43 Nights / 44 Days Places to Visit: Delhi - Udaipur - Mt. Abu - Jodhpur - Pokaran - Jaisalmer - Bikaner - Mandawa - Jaipur - Fatehpur Sikri - Agra - Gwalior - Orchha - Khajuraho - Varanasi - New Jalpaiguri - Darjeeling - Gangtok - Siliguri - Kolkata - Bhubaneshwar - Puri - Konarak - Bhubaneshwar - Chennai - Cochin - Allepey - Kumarakom - Cochin...
