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The most famous mosque in Bijapur, it has the second biggest dome in the world after St Peter's in Rome, with an amazing echo effect
550 days later

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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Indian Flag 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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