Travels to India

From: Australian CPA | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

India provides more experiences than can be abosrbed in a single lifetime,

according to Peter Mellick of Sundowners, a business partner of the Society.

To journey across the breadth of India from Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) on the Arabian Sea encompasses many of the most important religious, historical and architectural sites India has to offer; and brings the traveller face-to-face with the diversity of the Indian people. Calcutta: the noise, smells, hustle and bustle are exhilarating and often overwhelming. An overnight train journey westward to Varanasi, a ...

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