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Preparing for the trip

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December 14th 2005
Sunday, Dec. 25, I’m leaving Chicago O’Hare for Mumbai. My flight takes me through Zurich, but there is only about 1 ½ hour layover. Coming back on Jan. 15, I will have a six hour layover and am considering leaving the airport to explore the city. To be honest, I don’t know what I am doing while in India. The idea is to fly down to Cochin for a few days or a week. There, we want to take a ... 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