Driving Up the Mountain

Short Holiday to Ranikhet

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July 20th 2008
Our school's midterm break arrived and a group of us decided to go to the Himalayan hill station of Ranikhet, in Uttaranchal state. To get there, we took a seven hour train and then it was a two hour drive up the mountain, which was basically a 60 km series of switchbacks. Our trains going to and returning from were both overnight sleeper style. However, while sleeping on the train going to ... 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