Dead tree shrine

First experience in India

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January 10th 2008
I will never understand why they chose to put a bunch of tourist hotels in Delhi's most disgusting neighbourhood. The second the rickshaw driver pulled off the main road, Paharganj announced itself with a vile smell of mud, sewers, and rotting garbage. Our hotel failed to meet the high expectations I had of 23$ a night hotels in India and made me cry (though that was partly from the exhaustion ... 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