View of the town center

Those are our trucks. The water is a pond, one of many about that size, divided by walls. The building on the right held the public toilets and a school which was in session but whose students all piled out to visit with us. The yellow building straight ahead is the Regional Office. The top floor is used by the doctor for his visits. It's also where the JU students "camp" when they come for a longer visit. Next to that are a variety of shops.

Panikhali and the Sunderbans

February 3rd 2008
Wow, this was a very long day! As one of our group commented as we ate dinner, we traveled longer today than we did to get from Dulles to London! None of it anywhere near so comfortably but much more interestingly. I almost entitled this "And VDOT thinks they have something to worry about" but didn't know how many folks would get that inference. We started off as near to 7 a.m. as we cou ... 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

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