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SE India - The Backwater

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January 7th 2011
Backwater Tour Behind the towns in the south west of India, is a river, lake and canal system that they call the Kerala backwater. The Bakwater river and canal systems go for hundreds of kilometres, using both natural and man made canals. Some of these canals run high above the surrounding rice fields, and the swamps of Kerala. We were fortunate enough to go on a 4 hour cruise on a bac ... 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