MADURAI - VARCALA - BACKWATERS 007

IMPOSSIBLE INDIA - STRIKE TWO! The South (Trichy, Madurai, Varkala, Backwaters, Kollam, Periyar, Kumily, Cochin)

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March 1st 2009
(CLICK TO ENLARGE PICTURES!!) Leaving the quietness of Pondicherry we jumped on a bus to Trichy where we had read it was quite nice and had quite a bit of old heritage there. So a nice easy 6 hour bus ride through the plains of South India we went. On the trip through we even managed to get a taste of the Indian highway (Motorway)… what a joke! In most normal places in the world peopl ... read more

Asia » India

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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