Rishikesh

Some inner calm....

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November 21st 2007
Namaste, The next leg of our trip took us from Goa (Mid West India) to Rishikesh (North East India). This 24 hour "Pailinesque" journey involved 5 forms of transport and was incident filled. Our internal flight from Goa to Delhi had to make an emergency landing at Mumbai due to an elderly passenger having a heart attack. Luckily there was an Israeli doctor who did her best to stabilize the m ... 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