sunrise at kanyakumari

this could be magic

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November 20th 2006
day 91-92ish We had cunningly planned to catch the sun setting and rising over Kanyakumari - the southernmost tippy toe of India. Sadly our timing was out, and we missed sunset. Kanyakumari is, unsurprisingly perhaps, another pilgrim destination. At dawn, hundreds of black dhoti*-clad Indians were bathing themselves in the (probably auspicious) waters of the Bay of Bengal, In ... 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