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Cochin

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May 12th 2006
Got bus from Kumily to Cochin about 7 hour journey with usual pack of passengers and people hanging on but had got to terminus early to secure seat and space for rucksack. This was a really scenic journey as we wound along hillsides and down forest clad valleys. Arrived Ernakulam and got ferry to Fort Cochin and secured accommodation in Vasco's House which Lucy had recommended. Went out for look a ... 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