Himalayas by plane

Kashmiri Paradise

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June 2nd 2009
The next morning I boarded an Indian Airlines plane and took off for Srinigar, Kashmir. I enjoyed a beautiful one hour flight over the Himalayan Mountains before meeting one of the houseboat owners, Hanif at the airport. As he loaded up my backpack onto his jeep he informed me of the strike that occured in town due to three girls getting raped and murdered the night before. "The whole city is c ... 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