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Benares - The city of light - part 2 The tourists from Siberia It is a flight they take to travel more than 10,000 kilometers all the way from Siberia. The flight takes them all the way from the icy winters of the Arctic circle, from Siberia, through Afghanistan and Central Asia before arriving along the river beds of the River Ganges.  With the onset of a comparatively milder winter, these tourists flock the city of Benares in thousands. Their return flight is not until the harvest season in February when the mercury in Benares rises and signals them to prepare themselves along with their young ones to make the return flight.  Apparently as the temperature drops beyond livable conditions in the arctic circle, a hormonal change in their body signals them to prepare for the flight that would bring them to the wetlands along the Gangetic plains. They are tuned into a sixth sense that maps the exact path of their flight with astonishing accuracy so much so that they arr...