The toy train

Travels by train

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September 29th 2012
Leaving our peaceful houseboat in Srinagar, we have taken trains south and then east. It has been a whirlwind of religions and languages – Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs speaking Ladahki, Kashmiri, Hindi and Punjabi. Keeping up can be tricky, but luckily most people speak some English. Jammu was just a stop on the way. We did visit a temple, suicide bombed in 2002, and a market which seem ... 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