Surprising, exciting, incredible India 2015_0321_12043100

March 23rd 2015
We have spent the past three days in Mysore. We toured the palace which was built in the early 1900's, and is absolutely beautiful. It is so opulent with colorful murals on the walls and high domed ceilings with carvings and paintings. At night the whole outside is lit up with thousands of lights.Will post some pictures, but unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside. As the sayi ... 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

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Life has handed me many adventures but none quite as fulfilling as the one I am about to embark on.I have found my niche and am going back for the third time to volunteer at ABC's and Rice in Siem Reap Cambodia. ABC's and Rice is an NGO school that provides education in both English and Khmer to the poorest of the poor from the villages on the outskirts of Siem Reap. In Cambodia, children often have to go out to work or to beg in order to help support the family, so ABC's provides a kind of reverse tuition of 2 meals a day at the school and rice to take home every month so these kids can g... full info

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