Category: Travel

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RTWA 7: Lucknow Residency and Bara Imambara

Varanasi to Lucknow is not very far. Its about 300KMs. But road isn’t great. It took us more than 7 hours to cover. But its all worth it. Lucknow is a beauty or at least the area we saw. Traffic is so much better than Allahabad or Varanasi. We reached around 2pm, so...

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RTWA 6: Sarnath

Sarnath is one of the four holy places for Buddhists. This is where Gautama Buddha gave his first public lecture including Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Otherwise Sarnath also has one of pillars of Ashoka. Its broken and the Lion Capital of Ashoka is for display inside museum. Lion Capital is also the state emblem of...

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RTWA 5: Varanasi

We left Allahabad after breakfast at Coffee House today. We covered the distance of around 130 KMs in about three hours. The road is two lane but without divider. There was quite a bit of traffic and people dive quite rash here. We took a single break to have great tea. We reached...

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RTWA 4: Allahabad and Visit to Sangam

Drive to Allahabad was not easy, specially the last 60 KMS. It was a double lane road without divider and almost every one was driving in high beams. City is even worse, I couldn’t see anyone stopping at traffic signal, care about walkers or side no which they drive. Our hotel which I...

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RTWA 3: A short visit to Fatehpur Sikri

Today was supposed to be a just long drive day. I wanted to cover maximum distance today and reach Allahabad. Since App wanted to do something before and as ready to get up early enough, we planned to do Fatehpur Sikri before we start to Allahabad. So we wokeup early and reached Fatehpur...

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RTWA 2: Mathura And Agra

We left early around 530AM this morning. Except navigating the area around new Delhi railway station. The drive was actually good. In 2005 I didn’t get to drive on Yamuna Expressway. This time I did. My around 8 am we were at Mathura. We got to see the jail in which Krishna was...