Monkey in Ranakpur

Rajasthan

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September 7th 2006
We opted to take a 2-week driver tour in 'the land of kings'. This would include all the major stops including Jodhpur, Jaipur and Jaisalmer. Our driver was nice (although a bit strange, with terrible jokes and many homeopathic remedies for everything imaginable). Our first stop was a small town called Mandawa, followed by a larger one called Bikaner. There was a lot of looking at old build ... 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