Fish drying

Leaving Chennai

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January 30th 2008
Hi from Mamallapuram. It has taken me two days just to learn how to pronounce this. We left Chennai yesterday after a brief tour. Unfortunately it is large busy dusty industrial Indian city and it was actually good to leave after just an overnight stay. Our guides Charles really threw us into ethnic India right away with a stop at one of Chennais’ working beaches i.e. a fishing village. Not yo ... 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