Brett and Graham at the Taj

Agra, the city of love?

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January 27th 2005
Our adventures have continued in a very touristy fashion over the last few days. We hopped a train to Agra to see all the must-sees of India, including the Taj Mahal..and then many many other palaces, ruins, temples. Our drives around the city were sprinkled with some of the filthiest sites we've seen and some of the most persistent touts and beggars. But the Taj was a very redeeming element of th ... 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