Monkey temple, Hampi

550 days later

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April 9th 2008
I am sitting in Margao train station in Goa about to embark on my journey home after 550 days of seeing the world - a 12 hour sleeper train to Mumbai arriving at 6 in the morning, my flight leaves at 1pm, takes 11 hours (I think) and then I'll probably end up waiting 5 hours or so at Heathrow so as to get an overnight bus to Glasgow that arrives at a sensible time rather than at 3am. Although Thu ... 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