The Gateway to the Taj

A Security Officer, 28 hours, And A Desperate Attempt to Get to Varnasi

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August 15th 2006
I left off last in Amritsar, which is small, annoyingly hard to type, and dirty. There's not much to see there besides the Golden Temple, and despite the fact that it's the capital of Punjab, and the type of Indian clothing we're looking for is sometimes called the Punjab suit, we couldn't actually find it anywhere in Punjab, just sarees. We did however, manage to get fantastically dirty on our ... 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