Waiting at the first landslide

Himalayan India

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June 16th 2008
Friday 13 June We left Manali (1,926 m.) at 0900hrs, climbing past apple orchards & fields growing various crops before quickly reaching forrested area. We had to stop several times, once about an hour's wait, while they cleared the road of the landslides resulting from last night's rain. The road was very muddy in parts, rocky & narrow in many places & we had to drive through fast flowing wa ... 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