Kolkata

Exhausted

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May 15th 2008
Hello everyone, I am in Kolkata now. Staying at this cheap little hotel in the dense heat. My journey started out a little rough. When I got to Mumbai due to a little confusion and the insistance that the hotel I wanted to go to was too far away to get back to the airport in the morning by a taxi driver. I basically got really ripped off taxi wise and ended up just making him take me back 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