Beautifully carved pillars

5) Tiruchirappalli also known as Trichy

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February 19th 2005
Due to the fact that this weekend was an ideal one for weddings, many hotels were fully booked. But in the end we got a room in the oldest hotel in town, set around a nice courtyard with shrubs, flowers and banana trees. Very nice indeed! The first sight we went to see was the temple town Srinangam, just north of Trichy, easy to reach by local bus. It was boiling hot, and for the first t ... 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