Light entertainment in the evening

It all ended in clouds of smoke...

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February 22nd 2006
Despite only having about a week left in India I ended up spending 3 days here before I caught a train out of the place. Just to set the scene, Udaipur is a picturesque city surrounded by lakes, one of which has an old palace (now a hotel) in the middle but apart from that there isn't much to it. Why then did I spend 3 days there? Alcohol, good company and bad reports about the places I was planni ... 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