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Vrindavan aka: Brindavan,Vraj
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rtanksley
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Why I want to go to this place
Hindus belive that Krishna assumed physical form and lived a single life as a man in this city. The entire area is considered sacred and thousands of pilgrims come here each year to worship. There was a great series on NPR about it. Seems like a really cool place to visit.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4980828
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Vrindavan has always remained as a part of the Hindu folklore, and a important Hindu pigrimage, in 1901 it had a population of 22,717 and one of its oldest surviving temples is the Govind Deo temple, built in 1590, the modern town is said to have been fou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrindavan
