Bandavgarh NP

Islands, temples and tigers

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April 17th 2007
After a short flight from Sri Lanka, my first stop in India was in a smallish city with a large name, Tiruchirappalli, or Trichy for short. For the tourist Trichy has a small temple perched on a large rock in the middle of the city, and another large temple complex on its outskirts. But the cheapest flight I could find to a half desirable location in southern India was the main reason I was here. ... read more

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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