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Desert Sessions

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April 4th 2008
We are coming now to the end of our time in India and are making the long trip this afternoon out of Rajasthan to Delhi. The past few days have been spent in the sandcastle city of Jaisalmer which has a definite Aladdin feel about it. Its centrepiece is a huge Fort of the Mughal period surrounded by a vast desert, miles from anywhere. We managed to stay inside the fort itself at a relatively new g ... 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