the red phone

West to East India on Enfield

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March 16th 2010
It's 9 am in the morning, I've been riding for 2 hours through the Thar desert and the morning cold has chilled me to the bones. I feel hungry and I deserve a stop, A nice little place along the road announces "Brak Fast". I don't have much time, so that sounds all right with me. I pull over and a man welcomes me. I ask for the menu, but he looks at me not understandingly. I want to point out some ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan

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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