Sunset - bloody cold

Camel safari

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January 9th 2009
Well we survived a night in the freezing (bloody freezan as our guide so nicely put it) desert under the stars. What an amazing contrast camels in the desert was to all of our experiences in India so far. It is a huge open space with bugger all going on which you experince at the pace of a camel (not even that fast when running!). We headed out very early (for India) in a jeep into the unknown. W ... 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