Inside the fort

January 14th 2011
After visits to the ‘pink city’ and then the ‘romantic city’, it is now the turn of the ‘blue city’ of Jodhpur, so named after the number of houses painted this way (see accompanying photo). This has really just been a double transit stop for me, being the ‘hub’ to the frontier city of Jaisalmer. With Jaisalmer being so close to the ‘troublesome’ Paki border, all flights there ... 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

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Joan & Neil

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Joan and Neil have posted blogs below on the following trips: 1. South America for 3 months, from Sept07 through to Nov07, visiting each of Ecuador (including the Galapagos Islands), Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. 2. Far north Thailand in Mar08 where Neil taught English at a Summer School for the SPF charity he was involved with. This also included a side trip for the weekend to Luang Prabang in Laos. 3. Russia (cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg), then visit to each of Croatia, Budapest & Vienna for a total of 4 weeks, starting in mid Sept08. 4. Neil did a similar SPF te... full info

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