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The Giant Sundial  
   

The Giant Sundial

The 27m high Gnomon of the sundial at Jantar Mantar, an observatory full of weird and wonderful astronomy devices that look like modern sculptures.
Yellow, Yellow, Dirty Fellow. White, White, Orbit White. It not rhyme but is true.

April 11th 2007
Udaipur to JaipurSion and Niki Hey all, We are cheating a little on this blog, we're not actually in Jaipur anymore, and it's not actually the 11th its the 13th, but we had an early train yesterday and we didn't have time to spend hours slaving away in a tiny internet cafe trying to come up with bad jokes and stupid puns before ... read more
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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
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