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The Taj

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November 22nd 2008
Dehli was the first stop on the way to the Taj, which is the whole purpose of this leg of the sojourn. I was half expecting to be overwhelmed by Delhi, but it somehow failed to happen. Sure there's about fifty people packed into an area of a postage stamp at times and everyone wants a part of you but it's not that much of a struggle. It's also a place of contrasts with Old Delhi being packed to th ... 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