Water birds

Thol bird sanctuary

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January 4th 2009
In the afternoon we headed off to book a sleeper train out of town and decided to try to get to the nearest wetland bird sanctuary. We walked over tho the nearest taxi stand and guys ran from everywhere to discuss our trip. After a lengthy discussion they told us it was over 100 kilometres away. At this point we pointed to the brochure where it says just 25 km from Ahmedabad and they went back int ... 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