Hello Manda

The road to Dharamsala

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April 16th 2011
Hello from McLeod Ganj (aka Upper Dharamsala), the bustling hillside village that is home to the Dalai Lama, Buddhist monks and the Tibetan refugees. We are enjoying time here, nestled at the base of the Himalayas after training it to Jaipur and bussing it to Udaipur over the last week. Jaipur is called the pink city because the buildings and walls of the old part of the city are all painted ... 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