Beautiful paintwork at entrance gate of Amber Fort

The pink glow of Jaipur

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August 16th 2009
We were pleased to arrive at our hotel - the lovely 'Pearl Palace' - in Jaipur as it was still raining. We were all a little shaken as on the way our driver just missed hitting some cows that wandered out across the 6 lane highway. He slammed on the brakes, luckily not skidding as the roads were wet - the cows were then in front of a bus beside us which somehow missed them as well. Had they hit th ... 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