Exquisite carvings

Too many Indians not enough tourists

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September 16th 2008
As the title suggests we seem to have landed in India in the off-season. There is a distinct lake of white faces, oversized backpacks and slowly softly spoken language. For us this means feeling like rock-stars everytime we leave our hotel, I mean the amount of attention we generate could run a small town for weeks... Disappointingly for me I have to admit that Lisa takes the lions share in this d ... 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