INDIA (26/10/2007 - 24/11/2007)

We spent some days in Kolkata before leading toward
west. We visited Bodhgaya, one of the most important pilgrimage
places in the world for Buddhists.

Along the way many Indians wanted to race against us! It was a non stop race, we overtook each other every other 50 meters, a continuous annoying overtaking! Every day it was the same!
When we stopped along the road for eating something, a lot of
people used to come around staring us. Just watching... They didn't
say a word!

After one week we got Varanasi (Benares) where we spent
almost ten days, really a fascinating city! Cows
and bulls strolling around the alleys, cheeky monkeys everywhere along the sacred Ganga. Daily life is carried out along that river, while more then 50 sewages dropped into the river some people washed their clothes and others bathed. Dead people are burnt on both sides of the river. In a few days we crossed the Nepalese border.
(Sunauli-Bhairawa).

Claudio and Patrizia