the beach? more like fishing boat parking lot and the local toilet

if you look really hard or enlarge the photo, you can see the famous Shore Temple in the background that we did not visit b/c they charge a whopping $5 entrance fee. hey! that goes a long way here! (Mamallapuram)

flyin' through the east!

January 5th 2006
we have now officially had our first over night train experience in India, which was more like trying to sleep though the '89 cali earthquake in a tin 50 person dormatory... no joke. however, the second class sleepers with the ability to lay down on plastic covered ply wood beds was a step up from enduring a long, bumpy local bus ride. the newest annoyance to add to our list has to be the vend ... 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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