Temple at Har-ki-Pauri at sundown

January 13th 2018
The Ganges - iconic, sacred... and polluted. It's yet another of those unfathomable dichotomies that is India. Hindu legend relates how the gods commanded goddess Ganga, a river living in the heavens, to fall to Earth. Ganga didn't really want to leave and, because she was being forced, threatened to destroy all life on Earth by the strength of her flow. Fortunately, as she ... 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

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Mike Fossey

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Once upon a time, I was something important in the UK travel industry, where I spent more than 35 years of my working life roaming the globe at someone else's expense. So, if you dream of living overseas on less than 10 Dollars a day, be warned: I'm an experienced, mature traveller - not a backpacker. You won't find stories here about me thumbing my way across the Sahara, slumming it in cockroach-infested hostels, or sharing a room with giant mosquitoes! Oh, and I'm British - so you can expect a stiff upper lip in times of adversity and a sense of humour that's often not understood by other... full info

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3rd March 2018

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Mike Fossey

This tour was full of amazing moments...
...so many, in fact, that we didn't have time to write blogs! Perhaps the programme was a bit over-ambitious for two men with a combined age of 155 years, but it was the only way to see so much in just a month. Now that we're home, the hard work begins - not sorting the thousands of photographs and writing even more thousands of words, but remembering what on earth we crammed into every day!

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