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India Day 8

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November 9th 2008
Happy Birthday Greg. Wish you were here. Wish we were there. Today we traveled to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. It's very, very impressive. It's enormous, beautiful, and incredibly rich. It's one heck of a tribute to the wife of the Maharajah. Tomorrow, at sunrise we will go there to photograph it, hopefully as the sun reflects on the jewels in the front. It's questionable. The smog and haze ... 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