Canoe trip

South India

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June 17th 2009
Arriving in Chennai our new tour leader takes us on an orientation of the city - it is so different from the north I’d been used to - everything seemed calmer, for a start no constant horn blowing and the streets are cleaner (not clean but cleaner). In our short time here we visit Kapaleeshwarar Temple with its rainbow coloured structures and then on to the “National Shrine of St Thomas Basil ... 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