Rub-a-Dub-Dub

The Charm of Kerala

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February 22nd 2011
So we are up bright and breezy to leave not so cutie Ooty and head for Kerala. On leaving the hotel I am confronted with five men standing in a line doing their business in the street - lovely!! If I wasn’t looking forward to the Keralan backwaters before, I certainly was now. We just had to conquer a 14 hour bus journey - this consisted of people constantly being sick on the bus (in the swelter ... 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