Main Bazaar, Delhi

Holy Cow - Delhi & Shimla!

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March 7th 2007
By jingo we're here! Well, we're in Shimla now, which is the kind of place that Rudyard Kipling would have thoroughly approved of. Lots of Colonial pomp and circumstance. But let's start at the beginning. 3am, driving towards our hotel and I think it was the sight of an ancient man (approx 300years old), sat in the middle of the road with a bonfire next to a cow, which let us know we'd arrived. ... 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