My Trip On The Ganges River
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Dear Paul,
About 2 weeks ago I went on an exciting trip along the Ganges River. In
this letter I'll tell you all about it. It turns out that the Ganges has its
beginning in an ice cave 10,300 feet above sea level in the snow-covered
Himalayan Mountains of northern India. From there, the river flows ....
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.... to find out that each year,
thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit such holy cities as Benares and Allahabad
along the banks of the Ganges. They go there just to bathe in the river and to
take home some of its water.
The Ganges River is so important to the Indians that they call it "Ganga
Mata" or Mother Ganges. It is also the greatest waterway in India and one of the
largest in the world. Temples line the riverbank, and stairways, called ghats,
lead down to the water. I am enclosing one of t ....
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