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Me on the Trek

We saw lots of cool stuff, grey languars, boars, elephant shit, great hornbill, but no cobra or tigers


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Indian  Flag 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]
Blog: Gotta love the Western Ghats
Date: March 21st 2007

So I stopped counting how many times I was close to death on the way up from Allepy to Kumily. I believe it was maybe 10-15. Indian drivers go around hairpin corners with thousand foot cliffs at full speed with the beep of a horn. Its like playing chicken but you cant even see the car around the corner. If you are really lucky then there is no other car around the corner. If as usual there is a c ... read more


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