Jaipur and back 1

To Jaipur and back

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October 16th 2006
With my desperately required emergency cash safely stashed away, I decided that a spot of rest and relaxation would be the order of the day before the upcoming cricket match and so I caught a bus to the holy Hindu pilgimage town of Pushkar with a few English travellers. The journey itself, although pretty uncomfortable, only took three and a half hours and cost the equivalent of about one pound ... 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