Goatherds, not bandits!

Wearing masks to shield them from the dust, these men (or were they women?) herded their goats along the road from Roopangarh to Sambhar.

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Sambhar's sodium sea

February 21st 2013
I didn't spend 35 years in the travel industry to plan a five-week tour of an interesting country that only includes things every other tourist goes there to see, did I? That's why, when I realised that our journey from Roopangarh to Jaipur would pass within a few miles of the largest salt lake in India and that this was also home to some prolific bird-life, I knew I had to take the 'G ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Sambhar Lake

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

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