anything goes on this bus it seems

On the road to nowhere

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March 4th 2008
After the fun of Kolkata we hit the road to Puri, a "beach" town 12 hours south. Our train pulled in at 5:30am (never a good time of day to arrive in a strange town) to be greeted by a crazed rickshaw driver telling us that 2 local boys were after us with knives as big as our arms. But madam, for 50 rupees extra he would somehow be able to protect us from these nasty men - how exactly we don't ... 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