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varkala to hampi via paradise

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December 20th 2007
I did, as expected, get stuck in Varkala in my room wiht the sea view.. but when I finally escaped the timing turned out to be perfect as a couple of days down the 'kerala traveller route' (I thought i was being clever but the lonely planet subliminally forces everyone to travel in the same direction - its spooky) I found my self in the big pink sky scraper ashram of Amma 'the hugging mother', wit ... 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