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Mandore, Osian and Khimsar Fort

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March 8th 2016
It is only a few hours drive from Jodhpur to Khimsar, our next destination, so after breakfast taken on the cool shady terrace we stop off at Mandore Gardens. This is a pleasant enough park built on the site of the old capital of the Rathores. In it there are various mausoleums of old Rathore rulers and some temples. Heavily weathered red sandstone so much of the carving is hard to make out. Next ... 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