Riding Up Front in India

Sailing Away from the Chaos of India

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December 12th 2005
Leaving behind my cozy little routine in Pushkar (it had gotten to the point where I was so well-known around my haunts that the local waiter gave me a bracelet!), I returned to the mayhem of Delhi to join up with my next Intrepid tour, which would take me from Delhi all the way to Kathmandu. Delhi felt a little different this time, a little less threatening, but it was still a wild experience and ... 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