my camel, Chai

the indian desert

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September 5th 2008
August 27, 2008 We arrived unscathed in Jaipur, but we didn’t leave in much the same state. We were envying our 30 hours on the train compared to Jaipur! We went to the old city- nicknamed the Pink City. It turned out to be more orange/brown than anything! I re-named Jaipur, India’s Dust Pan. We were haggled from the moment we left the hotel! Non-stop asking the whole day “you want ... 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