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Roopkund

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December 20th 2010
About Roopkund: Roopkund is a glacial lake in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state of India. Though it is popular among the locals for the very spritual reasons but for others it is famous due to more than five hundred skeletons found at the edge of a lake. The location is uninhabited and is located in Himalaya at an altitude of about 5,029 metres (16,499 feet). Participants: ... 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