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Hotel Maduban Jaipur

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March 18th 2006
We're in Jaipur, India and it is really quite hot! Only slightly pink though, thank goodness for factor 50 suncream! Jaipur is quite mad. Clearly a shopping paradise for Indian families with cash, somewhat intimidating to the foreigner, as people have been demanding that we go into their shop every ten seconds as we go along the road! Anyway, most of the time it is quite fun. We've only yel ... 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