The Taj Mahal at Agra

March 25th 1974
We left Birganj around 7.30am, this time on the Sundowners bus that was to take us all the way to London. Customs hassles took all of an hour, but this was mainly to check out the bus so in fact it was just free time for us paying passengers. Once again, the trip took us through some pretty dreary countryside. The occasional wells and mango orchards broke the monotony of rice fields and barren gro ... 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

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Joan & Neil

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Joan and Neil have posted blogs below on the following trips: 1. South America for 3 months, from Sept07 through to Nov07, visiting each of Ecuador (including the Galapagos Islands), Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. 2. Far north Thailand in Mar08 where Neil taught English at a Summer School for the SPF charity he was involved with. This also included a side trip for the weekend to Luang Prabang in Laos. 3. Russia (cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg), then visit to each of Croatia, Budapest & Vienna for a total of 4 weeks, starting in mid Sept08. 4. Neil did a similar SPF te... full info

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The beauty never changes.

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Taj
This has to be almost the most elegant building in the universe. I remember that that day I was the first person in the queue to get in so I could actually get a photo without a million people in it.

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