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		<title>Pushkar</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brahma dropped a lotus flower on the earth and a shitload of people decided to have a camel fair in Pushkar.  This camel fair was nuts.  There are thousands of camels, hundreds of thousands of people in this tiny town for this crazy thing that lasts 10 days.  I had to come after watching Michael ]]></description>
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		<title>Jodhpur</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[n Jodhpur I had a really great cup of cappucino.
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That&#8217;s it.  That&#8217;s pretty much all I could come up with to write about Jodhpur.  It&#8217;s a great city to visit.  It has a nice fort with a good audio guide, a palace with a hotel in it, a beautiful mausoleum and an atmospheric old city.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams and the desert of reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sleep in the upper berth on the twenty hour train ride to Jaisalmer, I wake to a massive cacophony of English language wasted energy.  Two English women, a mother and daughter team, are trying to fit three massive bags into the smallish compartment area while shouting and complaining at each other at high ]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi Diwali</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Delhi for Diwali, I walk down the street as the chaotic launch of fireworks  continues for hours from every direction.  One of the most popular directions seems to be &#8220;five feet from the foreigner&#8217;s leg.&#8221;  After the first hundred or so, I cease to stop, drop and roll at each explosion.  But I do ]]></description>
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		<title>The World is Flat Out Creepy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclicreality.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[s the touts and tourist prices of Agra fade with my anger into memory, I find myself on a government bus to Jaipur crammed into a seat next to a skinny young Indian man.  He is on his way to take a test to become a police commander and he has questions for a white ]]></description>
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		<title>The Tourist Tax in Agra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of posts.  I&#8217;m trying to get caught up while hanging out on the beach in Goa.  Some of these posts have been sitting around my laptop for a long while. 
he most famous sight in India is the Taj Mahal.  Every tourist visits it.  It&#8217;s one of the wonders of the ]]></description>
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		<title>The Planned City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After partition in 1947, the former capital of Punjab, Lahore, became a part of Pakistan.  This meant that Punjab in India needed a new capital. The government decided that none of the existing cities were suitable.  So, the first prime minister of India, Jawarhal Nehru decided to have a new city built to represent the ]]></description>
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		<title>Amritsar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hen the bus pulled into Amritsar, I could see that I was finally back in India.  I had left the mist-capped mountain retreats, the hummus-peddling tourist restaurants and I was back in the land of cycle rickshaws and dhabas.  Also, I had been traveling with people since Leh, so I was on my own again, ]]></description>
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		<title>The Dalai Lama’s Home in Exile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ spent one week in the city of McLeod Ganj near Dharamsala in the state of Himachal Pradesh.  The primary draw of this place is that it is the home of the Tibetan government in exile and contains the monastery of the Dalai Lama.
In 1950, China invaded Tibet with 30,000 troops, overwhelming its meagre defenses.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Paragliding over Manali</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ spent about a week in Manali.  This is quite a great place to get caught up.  I stayed in the Dharma Guesthouse in a room with a private balcony and the views in the morning and evening over the valley were breathtaking.
I was completely lazy here.  My one major event was the day I ]]></description>
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