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April 12th 2014

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Hello you lovely lovely readers, I do hope you are all well. Now then, my time with the wonderful people of the Thar desert has come to an end. And what wonderful people they were. I can genuinely say that I have never found it so easy to blend in to a community, and they really were a community in the true sense of the word. I don’t want to sound too cliqued but I experienced unparalleled frie... Read Full Entry

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Not sure this toddler appreciates the significance of this small monument.

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This wall still shows some of the bullet holes of the 1850 shots fired.

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This is the well that desperate people jumped in to to escape the bullets. They recovered 120 dead bodies from it.

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The Golden temple in Amritsar, a Sikh temple. Relgion religion religion. Holy water, holy living. This place is addictive.

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I waited in this queue for about two hours. I couldn't go forward and I couldn't go back. Indians are not the best at queuing.

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At the end of the queue I found the people who were making all the chanting. I didn't take this picture as I didn't was to insult anyone so I stole this from Google.

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Do you see what I mean about missing the colour when I get home? God I love this place.

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So for the second time in two days I find myself in another huge queue. This time to watch the famous India Pakistan border closing ceremony.

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Indian side "HINDUSTAN HINDUSTAN" the crowd would shout.

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Pakistani side "PAKISTAN PAKISTAN" the crowd would reply. It is easy to forget that the relationship of both countries is so troubled.

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I swear they selected the tallest chaps in the entire sub continent to rep the Country.

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Being India it turned in to Rave, Big up to those Indian sisters, throwing those hands up.......

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It is all a bit silly really....but it is fun.

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Punjap is probably called the bread bin of India, probably....there is a huge amount of wheat produced here.

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