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the Pink city

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January 27th 2010
The pink city, Jaipur(@450m) was another traffic crazy city in India. The kind of place I disliked as touts were everywhere, taxi or rickshaw drivers followed you to the end of the world, more persistence than my shadow! Jaipur was a heavy transposition center, as the gateway into Rajasthan, action was 24hrs around the Station Road. And the number of hotel was abundant, but most of them were only ... 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