Milly and Silas

Hampi and Bangalore to Mysore

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December 1st 2007
Still here. Still alive - just. Some wise old soul once said that travelling was all about the journey, not the destination. That's all very romantic until you actually have to get from one place to the other using buses in India. First journey this week was from Goa to Hampi. It was an overnight bus journey which I was weirdly quite looking forward to. I knew I was in a sleeper bunk - which ... 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