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Kochi Weekend

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July 31st 2005
I had a really really nice weekend. Early Saturday morning Eddie, Emilia and I took a rickshaw to Chengannur, and from Chengannur we took the train to Ernakulam (Kochi and Ernakulam are twin cities, Kochi being the old part an Ernakulam the new part). It was about two and a half hours, and all in all was a pleasant ride. We took a ferry across the harbor to Fort Cochin (which is an island that ... 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