Tea plantation

High up in the hills of Ooty

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March 12th 2011
Our task when we arrived was to find how we could catch a bus from Coimbatore to Ooty – our chosen destination high up in the hills of the Western Ghats. I walked about a bit while Zoe guarded the bags and found out we needed to make our way to the new bus stand – we fought with rickshaw drivers for a while to get a decent fare and eventually caved as it was way to early to struggle too hard o ... 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