Spinning the prayer wheels

Dharamshala and Christmas in India

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December 25th 2008
Hello and Merry Christmas from India. We have made it back to Delhi and are leaving for Thailand tonight. Xmas is a bit surreal in India. It's kind of a joke holiday here like Halloween in NZ. THe santa we saw at the last bar would have been more appropriate in some Halloween horror rather than christmas. Anyway, since we last blogged, we have spent 4 days in McLeod Ganj, 10km above Dharamsh ... 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