elephants get washed down

Delhi, Agra, Jaipur

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May 23rd 2006
Delhi I arrived in Delhi on the 20th at about 2AM, stayed in decent hotel I had booked ahead of time. I was expecting a complete mad house of a city but it was very manageable. The claims of hordes of begging children following you around were not true, although there were many cripples. One guy had only one working arm and no legs and pushed himself around in a little cart. We had a mini-monsoon ... 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