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Spiritually Enlightened

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August 19th 2006
Haridwar Jarrod and I needed to slow things down after Delhi so we headed northeast to the mountains. We spent a night in Haridwar and went to a spiritual ritual on the Ganges were a bunch of official looking workers provide receipts to people who donate money. What a scam! This takes place everynight and the amount of people attending is crazy, if all the money was used properly 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