outside the temple with the ancient porn, we found this huge iron shed. Crawling into it I found a massive wooden sculpture looking like a gopuram, on wheels, clearly not used in ages
God and country - the deep south, part 1 October 4th 2009 This blog covers the time approximately Sep 11 - 15.
So in the last blog I left off in the train from Mumbai to Chennai. I think I mentioned most of it already, but one thing I forgot to mention is some of the beggars. I don’t know if it was because I travelled sleeper class - the cheapest class where you still get somewhere to lie down - because on the other train rides later I never saw th ... read more
Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Tiruchirappalli 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
UPDATE (April 2013)
This site was the blog I kept for my long-term travels, mainly through Asia, in 2009-2010. I'm not maintaining it any more. I've done numerous trips since then but haven't kept them on this blog. I did run my own blog for a year but unfortunately lost that data.
END UPDATE
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Having always dreamed about travel, previously mainly done it as three-week or four-week sort... full info