Busy Street in Jaipur

The Pink City

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October 14th 2010
Jaipur is dusty, dirty, Indian awesomeness. I would equate life here to an Indian version of a Wilbur Smith novel or an Indiana Jones film; it’s like stepping into another era. The roads are congested with bicycle pull carts, donkey pull carts, men pulling carts, motorcycles, rickshaws, a scattering of camels and elephants, amber colored archways, colorful markets and even more colorful people. ... 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