'Toy Train' (Kolka to Shimla)

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September 22nd 2007
Rishikesh - Chandigarh - Kolka - Shimla. From Rishikesh we took a 7 hour bus journey to Chandighar which to start off seemed lovely (not very full) but then a couple of stops on we were rammed and quite uncomfortably sharing three seats with us (obviously) our two backpacks and a lady and her two children - but it was cheap so hey! Spent a night in Chandighar bus station (in the transi ... 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