Varkala

Recovery on the West Coast

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January 16th 2008
Well the stomach bug was vanquished, I hope, and I recovered enough to get on a train and head towards the southwest coast of India. I returned to Varkala, a small beach town that I had visited four years ago. The area where most people end up is the Cliff where there are countless restaurants, hotels/guesthouses, shops, and now yoga, ayurvedic medicine, and reiki schools. The number of places ... 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