Dinner time!

Biting creatures

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August 2nd 2008
Hooray for the Queen of the hills, otherwise known as Ooty - it's so cold up here there are no mosquitos to bother me! My red eye is still a puffy itchy mess after the little critters had a pop at my face the other night. My thigh has also gone from being painful to itchy in the place where a strange flying creature bit or stung me during one of the crazy bus journeys (through my trousers I'll ... 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