Old Delhi market

The end of a memorable visit to India

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November 30th 2014
We loved Jaipur and were lucky to see so much of it. Our journey to Delhi was broken by a night in the village of Patan. After a 4 hour road journey we turned off down a more rural road leading through typical villages with stalls, local shops and, of course, animals wandering around; cows, pigs, goats and camels pulling carts along non-tarmaced roads. We travelled deep into the village wondering ... 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