The cafe in our guesthouse in Goa

From the plane to insane to the commuter train

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December 14th 2000
I couldn't have imagined that we'd get our visas and make it to the airport as painlessly as we did. We were even early, after deciding against an expensive taxi and choosing the public bus instead. We had an overnight flight ( = no sleep) and we arrived in Mumbai at about 4am. We made the airport our sanctuary until daylight and then had to figure a new way downtown (the guidebook had old bus inf ... 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