Elephant riders approaching the get-on get-off stand

Part 4 - Elephant Camp

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December 15th 2008
The 3 of us (Lillie, Rosie & I) joined 2 women staying at the Palace Estates, who are also yoga students at the shala, in sharing a car from Palace to Bylakuppe (Tibetan settlement), stopping at an elephant retirement camp along the way. The 2 women were excited about the prospect of watching elephants getting bathed, and to ride the elephants. The elephant camp was never mentioned in any of the ... 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