Mountains

Playa from the Himalaya

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May 15th 2009
I lucked out on my flight from Istanbul to Delhi and managed to meet three guys from Brixton UK in the airport who were traveling to India. After swapping iteneraries it looked as if we were going to a lot of the same destinations, so they asked if I wanted to join up with them for the NE Himalayan leg of the trip to Manali and Shimla. We rented a "tourist taxi" with a personal driver and car ... 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