Local village in the desert

Jaisalmer India

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August 20th 2008
Jaisalmer: the highlight of Rajasthan. The city is a large medeval like fort built in the 12th century. This fort is still the actuall city, with a quarter of the entire population of the city still living inside. The city is on the border with Pakistan in a desert so dry it rains once every seven years! Besides a pension for selling "child beer" (misspelled "chilled"), the city is wonderfully vi ... 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