Bihar
I changed my mind about Benares—it is now my second favorite
place in India. My favorite is Bihar.
Tell Indians you're going to Bihar and you'll get a lot of
strange looks. It's not exactly a major tourist destination. But I realized a
long time ago that my dream of traveling has a lot less to do with beautiful
historic places and cultures and a lot more to do with wanting to visit the
outer planets on Firefly.
The border cities of Bihar seem a lot more like Badger's
kind of town than Calcutta and and Benares. You can see beautiful sunsets over
beautiful places in Benares, but here, you can see a beautiful sunset over
massive oil refineries through the thick dust clouds kicked up by the constant
stream of trucks heading into Nepal.
There is no comparison.
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