Things to find in India

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• Bhangarh Fort Haunted place
  Officially the most haunted place in India. The ruined fort-city of Bhangarh in Rajasthan was abandoned centuries ago, and legend blames a curse, a sorcerer’s doomed love for the princess, that killed everyone and forbade the...
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• Ellora & Ajanta Cave
  Not natural caves but something more astonishing: temples carved DOWN into the living rock. At Ellora in Maharashtra, India, generations of craftsmen cut 34 monasteries and temples from the basalt cliff, crowned by the Kailasa...
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• Panna diamonds Gem & mineral ground
  India was the only source of diamonds the world knew until the 1700s, and Panna in Madhya Pradesh is the last place in the country still producing them. Here, uniquely, ordinary people can mine: the government leases tiny shallow...
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• The Padmanabhaswamy treasure Legend
  The richest treasure ever found in one place. In 2011, on court order, officials opened long-sealed vaults beneath the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India, and found a hoard beyond imagining: gold coins by the sack, a...
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