Sitting out the rain!

Agra Phobia

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July 10th 2006
We arrived in Agra railway station to be greeted by a helpful aide known as Malik who sorted out the chaos involved in booking a ticket to our next destination. All be it to better his own pocket by taking us by auto rickshaw to our hotel and managing to get us to agree to keeping him on to tour Agra. (Agra is full of hustlers and excellent salesmen at every turn....hence the title "Agra Phobia" ... 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