Himalaya's from Reshikesh foothills

In to the foothills at Rishikesh

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December 19th 2008
After a Helter Skelter busride from Jaipur we arrived to the peaceful valley of Reshikesh, where the Ganges flows out of the Himalaya's into the plains... A very holy place for Hindu's with many Ashrams included the now defunct Maherishi's Asram where the Beatles stayed in 1968. On the first day we stayed in Ram Jhula which is where all the ashram's are because we had been travelling for a lon ... 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