Golden Temple at Dusk

India - Kasauli to Amritsar

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January 18th 2011
DAY 8 16th January 2011 Breakfast was also a fiasco but we did eventually manage to get two bowls of cornflakes and some toast!! Anyway that was by the by because the sun was shining and it looked like it was going to be a lovely day! Views of the mountains before we got down to the plains and then a fairly uneventful journey towards Amritsar. We crossed the border into Punjab state, Rojan, our ... 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