A chapati making lesson at lunch

Just deserts - on camel safari from Jaisalmer

---

January 3rd 2015
On the train to Delhi January 3 2015 If you had asked me in 2014 when it was permissible to to wear socks with sandals I would have confidently said "Never". Now I have travelled by camel across the Thar desert through arctic cross winds (well it felt like the wind was coming from there!) I am happy to concede this is one exception. We had awoken on New Years Day to find a fine mist blowin ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jaisalmer

---

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