Mount Kangchenjunga

To Gangtok We Went

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April 13th 2007
I've been robbed. Right in front of my face - my bag was unzipped and my wallet pulled out and quickly handed off to another woman. The guidebooks are right when they say to really watch your valuables on the trains...especially in Kolkata. Helga (another volunteer) and i had been in the women's car for less than 5 minutes and the woman with her back to me "adjusted her sari" (aka: ... 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