India Gate at sunset

Delhi

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February 27th 2009
Last stop: Delhi. We had four nights and three days in the capital city, with one of those days to be spent in Agra (Taj Mahal). We arrived in Dehli sort of bracing ourselves for craziness -- everything we had heard about Delhi was that it was more loud, more busy, more dirty, more scam artists, and so on. But we were pleasantly surprised to land in a modern city with wide, tree-lined stree ... 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