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January 27th 2010
Our next stop was the town of Madurai. We ended up in one of the more expensive hotels in town for a bit of a treat plus it was also a little hard finding a place with availability. Madurai is a fairly large place with a lot to do so we decided to stop here for a couple of nights. We went for a walk around town the first evening looking for the Meenakshi-Sundareswar Temple grounds and gave up. Whe ... 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