Queen of the mountain

Trekking the Himalayas, part 2

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November 14th 2008
A warning before we begin: if Part 1 was short and sweet, then Part 2 is anything but.... Day 4 was election day back home. We camped the night before at a high altitude meadow, so the walking was mostly downhill towards our next destination, the village of Pana. We made it to camp at sundown, but luckily our crew had set everything up and greeted us with tea and hot soup ( a daily feature by ... 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