its a long climb to the top of tiger fort

think we should be mountain goats, it would have been easier!

October 7th 2002
slept until 12 ish - had lunch on the rooftop; veg noodles. To Jaipur train station to sort tickets out to mumbai (relatively easy) and to get our refund( it was easier and more money than we had thought; Rs 450) Into Jaipur for a while- encountered loads of "baksheesh.... rickshaw...." Tried to find a bookshop to exchange our books, but useless- we only found one who would only give us Rs 40 for ... 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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karen humes

wish we were still travelling

myself and my hubby went travelling to india, srilanka, thailand, vietnam, cambodia, laos and malaysia in 2002-2003 for a year. I kept written journals at the time and now want to translate them into type! Some of these will be boring as they will be exactly what I wrote at the time; lots of mention of e-mailing , sitting in cafes, sitting on buses, trains and boats!!! I always had a really exciting picture of what travelling is about- in reality it is amazing days surrounded by what I used to call non days! The non days being either booking tickets to go somewhere else or trying to get som... full info

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