the group in front of the one night palace

India Trip Day 6 - Orchha

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April 7th 2009
We were lucky and had a second day in Orchha today. This meant that we were allowed a little bit of a sleep in and didn't have to meet up until 8:30am this morning. Our first stop of the morning was the Orchha palace where we had a local guide show us around the ruins. These ruins were really quite lovely and are about 400 years old. It was another place where you didn't really have to try to hard ... 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