Guide by Torch

This is our brief tourguide who showed us, by torch, the insides of the Daulatabad Fortress. The insides were built to help the defenders get an advantage over the attackers, the pitchblack tunnels provided areas of hiding, ambushing, secret cannons, places to spill boiling oil or water, and misleading escapes (which lead the attacker to the alligators in the moat). Pretty incredible.

India-ana Jones and the Last Crusade

August 20th 2007
I apologize for my absence, several times throughout India I sat down to post but so much was happening but that I never had time, this is actually my third post that is "saved" to send but the other two I did not finish and did not want to send out half written. I am now back in the US and have had time to catch up- so my last post will be all photos and their captions, India seems like the kind ... 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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