Hey, look ice grows on the ground!

Gurudongmar - the snow desert with the holy lake

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May 19th 2007
The lake that never freezes - right across China - Gurudongmar - North Sikkim Gurudongmar offered surrealistic views, with vast tracts of barren land on which wild yaks roamed, searching for frozen roots to pull out and chew. Across the plain land was a barren set of mountains which nothing on them, except hidden bunkers in which hid Indian soldiers as they guarded against Chinese ... 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