Pahalgam Valley in the snow

the wilds of Kashmir

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April 19th 2011
I knew, as I ate the dal, that I would be seeing these lentils again. Sure enough, three hours later I elegantly vomited into a plastic bag. The food tasted significantly worse on the way back up. The 12 hour jeep ride from Dharamsala to Pahalgam was not enjoyable. And when we arrived, tired and disoriented, the room was so cold I cried. And yet the five days we spent in Kashmir turned out ... 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