City Palace Jaipur

From Jaipur

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October 11th 2008
Jaipur 4/10/2008 The General's Retreat is certainly a haven of peace in the otherwise mad city of Jaipur. In reality Jaipur is rather a nice place in that it has an old walled city to the north. It was the only place we could think of where you could see baboons, elephants,camels, cows and pigs cleaning (and fouling) the streets. Away from the madness, traffic and noise of ... 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