at the poor man's Taj

Aurangabad

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December 4th 2009
Sorry for the delay in posting......didn't realize how unreliable the internet would be here! Anyway....Aurangabad. This was our first stop mostly as a base to explore Ellora & Ajanta caves. Aurangabad itself was a very strange mix of urban and rural.....mass traffic jams caused by people, dogs, goats and cows. People on cell phones digging through garbage. very strange. Our first day ... 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