Anne waits on Delhi Station

The Most Beautiful Building in the World

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April 6th 2011
On Tuesday 5th April, in a train compartment a lot like the sleepers on the old Capricornia/Sunlander, we travelled here to Agra, to see the Taj Mahal. We saw families with their food packed for the long trip, bringing back happy memories of chicken sandwiches and cups of tea! Our compartment for six, inevitably held eight people due to some mysterious Indian method of selling standby tickets. 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