Mussoorie

Re-tracing Grandad's footsteps

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December 3rd 2007
After our week of yoga and meditation in Rishikesh we set off to Mussoorie. Mussoorie is an old hill station set 2000 metes above sea level in the Himalayas. We choses to come here because my Grandad who was Anglo-Indian went to school here from 1933-1939. He had often talked about his school and how beautiful it was and it was this that inspired our trip to India. When we arrived at St.Georges ... 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