hill side dwellers

rocks and temples

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January 29th 2010
We stayed one night in a small, not very friendly town called Chittradurga..or something along those lines. The people stared without smilling, pretty much constantly and it gets pretty depressing after a while as we've got used to smiling happy Indians of the south. We had to stop there though as it was about 2 hours after sunset and it's not safe to drive in the dark, there are no lights on 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