Pete & The Taj

Agra & The Taj Mahal.

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January 18th 2010
Jan 15th - With twenty-five minutes left before we reach our next destination, Agra, I still cannot wrap my head around India. It is a place of extreme poverty. We have passed slums made of trash, concrete slums, slums made of mud and straw. However there was on mud hut that had a satellite for a TV - guess they had the priorities straight huh? There have been children playing cricket next to the ... 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