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Ranakpur Temple

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November 12th 2009
We left Jaipur by car for a six hour journey to Udaipur. We stopped half way at Ranakpur to see the amazing temple. It has 1444 carved columns of which no two are the same. They are all perfect bar one as they say that only God can be perfect therefore they deliberately made one column wonky. This has to be the most amazing carved temples we saw on our whole trip. James and I had to wear the ... 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