A cow contemplates the misty Ganges from a huge pile of garbage.

June 17th 2008
On the morning we'd planned to leave Rishikesh, we awoke to the same sounds as usual - the gentle Hare Krishna song coming from a music shop, the ring of bells from the temple across the street, and the incessant car horns - but there was another sound: rain. It rained non-stop for most of the day so we decided not to leave as we were afraid of getting everything we owned wet through. We spent mos ... 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

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Sharon and Scott

Born to travel

Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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