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Kerala Backwaters

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February 7th 2009
This is one of the places I was most looking forward to exploring in India and it certainly lived up to expectations. Kerala is a beautiful lush green state on the south western tip of India. We arrived in Kollam and within an hour we had booked our lodgings for the night, a ferry for the next day to take us from Kollam to Alleppey, a homestay on the edge of the backwaters with paddy fields behin ... 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