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EAST INDIA
A graceful city with
foundations of decadence; Calcutta, a mixture of sweeping colonial
architecture with a core of dark gossip, white streets, black heart.
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Orissa
with its tiny farms,thewhirling festivals and bright folk art,
its great temple cities of Bhubaneshwar, Konarak and Puri, then
to empty beaches, to the quiet hot springs and the wildlife
reserves of Chilka Lake and Simlipal.
The ancient capitals of Nalanda and Rajgir, Gaya and Bodhgaya,
where the Buddha attained enlightenment.Up in to the mountains
to Lumbini in Nepal where Lord Buddha was born into a royal
family.
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Bihar, has the hot
season but this parched land stands for its proud ruins of monasteries
and temples, universities and the testaments of a great world religion.
Further
into:
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- The foothills of the Himalayas and the
lush green of remote Sikkim.
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- The tea plantations of Darjeeling.
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The
Seven Sisters, the tribal states of hills and
grasslands, mountains and valleys where wild orchid
grow, a place of fragile beauty which is homeland to
many of India's most protected tribes, warrior
people, who wore the shrunken skulls of their
enemies around their necks.
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