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Trip to the Taj

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February 10th 2010
I woke with the intention of hiring a private car to take me to Agra to see the Taj Mahal before returning to Delhi to catch my 10:30PM train to Bikaner. I had previously planned on a (much cheaper) two night train ride with a grueling seventeen hour layover in Agra, but realized that for $100 I could hire a car to take me in a day, thus giving me two extra nights and a full day to so something ... 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