Break on the 3 hour hike to an set up an outpost clinic site

Into the Himalayan villages - Than Gaon

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July 1st 2006
Amazing how far behind you get on these blog things... So, fourth week of rotation - Than Gaon village, the one I was really looking forward to. We'd been up there before for the bbq, but we hadn't really gotten to look around. Basically Than Gaon is a village of about 10 families, so maybe 100 people, up in the mountains pretty close to Moussouri (you can hike from one to the other in about 6 ... 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