National Museum

Chaos to calm

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February 3rd 2016
We spent a last couple of days in Delhi with a bit more success than our previous visit but we still managed to travel an hour to the red fort to find it closed for some kind of event and then to the largest mosque in Delhi to find it just closing for prayers. Rather frustrated with this area of Old Delhi we took a tuk-tuk back to New Delhi for lunch then walked to the National Museum which was fa ... read more

Asia » Bhutan » Paro

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In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding some border land. Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907; three years later, a treaty was signed wher... ... read more