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Day 15 - The Spice Plantation

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March 18th 2007
Our guide, Malik, spent about 90 minutes walking us round a beautiful and very tranquil plantation. I never realised that I could be so interested in different varieties of pepper, how many different spices came from the same trees and why different spices are so expensive. I also hadn’t realised how ignorant I was on the subject, of the few plants I thought I recognised I managed to identify Co ... 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