Temple at Jaipur

The pink city

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January 22nd 2008
Our travels have taken us to India's pink city, Jaipur. We were due to catch a train from Agra to Jaipur at 6am on Mon 21st. The train didn't arrive until 9am leaving us with a very cold 3hr wait at Agra Fort train station. We were a little nervous as well because the only tickets we had managed to book were for the lowest class seats and the journey was 6hrs! In the end we had nothing to worr ... 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