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Sikkim - getting some Yaktion

April 2nd 2007
Sikkim is the native habitat of the yak, the welcome sign and the bureaucrat. Shaped like a little toe, it pokes it way northwards into the Eastern Himalayas bounded in the west by Nepal, Tibet in the North and Bhutan in the East. China has never been particularly happy about Sikkim being part of India- they consider it a part of Tibet and therefore it should be theirs. So India has kept the Sikki ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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