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Madurai, Madurai, Madurai

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December 27th 2016
Due to a bit of bad planning we ended up spending 2 more nights in Madurai. It's the second largest city in Tamil Nadu so not a bad place to get stuck waiting for a flight. We survived the trip back down the hill from Kodaikanal. It only took 3 hours down (4 hours up) and the bus wasn't full so not to bad an experience. Only about a kilometre of the trip had vertical drops so no sphincter strain a ... 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