Holi

Playing Holi in the Pink City!

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March 1st 2007
Mar 1 - 5 We took the coldest night bus ever from Jodhpur to Jaipur and got in around 6am. Jaipur, which is also known as the pink city, was where we decided to head for the Holi festival which marks the beginning of spring all across northern India. We crashed out for a few hours and then got up for breakfast. It was a little bit of a ordeal when Jen locked the keys in the room. When w ... 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