Tiger hill 2

I could not avoid the Typhoid

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October 23rd 2006
The last few days have been pure hell. Pure. Hell. I mentioned in the first email from darjeeling about how cold it is there. Even though technically it is not THAT cold, the fact that nowhere has any sort of heat to duck into makes it even more so. We checked out one hotel because they advertised wood burning stoves, but when we asked about them the manager shrugged and said, "we only use ... 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