Spiti Valley Boy

Foreigners are so few and far between in the village towns of the Spiti Valley, that children sometimes don't know what the funny-looking machine that their parents are forcing them to stand in front of is (a camera)! This is a typical looking boy from the Valley- and I aint talking San Fernando!


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Indian  Flag 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]
Blog: Kismet in Kaza
Date: September 29th 2006

I thought we were going to a staff meeting. Griff and I had been volunteering at a school in Manali- a town in northern India laying at the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. When the Assistant Principal asked Griff and I to join her for a meeting that Tuesday night, we accepted and expected to see the inner-workings of an Indian school staff meeting. We met in a small apartment near the scho ... read more







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