Himilayan pair

Northern India (long lost family pt 5)

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January 22nd 2009
After a mammoth 12 hour flight we touched down in Mumbai, a little worse for wear and with no idea of what time of day it should have been. I wasted no time at all in using my broken 'punjab-lish' to organise us a taxi to our hotel on the outskirts of Mumbai. The city (or what we saw of it at least) was as we'd expected; noisy, smog-filled, crowded and filthy. Immense shanty towns of make-shift s ... 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