Lenin is back

India: The South!

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April 16th 2012
On the 15th of March we flew from Kolkata to Chennai (but missed our connecting flight, obviously. This is India after all). After splashing out for the next flight down (with the so-called 'cheap' Indian airlines....) we arrived in Chennai and went straight to Pondicherry. Pondi is an old French town on the southern East shore of India in the state of Tamil Nadu. We saw a different India ... read more

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Puducherry

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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