Chennai (Madras), India Travel Blogs

Test drive across Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by the-rambler

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... one book to change at the next opportunity. Adust the compass for the ride back to Colombo, and then the flight to Chennai, formerly Madras, capital of Tamil Nadu. There is a cricket Test match waiting for me, South Africa versus India. The little master, ...

Arrival in Chennai

A travel blog entry by mxharris

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Very early (~2 am) Chennai Airport After our four hour connector, we are safely in Chennai (Madras) a metropolis about 3 hours north of Pondi. While getting off the plane we struck up a conversation with the American couple sitting behind us who ...

Innovative India

A travel blog entry by jackdrury

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... perhaps under your breath at airport security for confiscating your little plastic bottle of water before you board an airplane? India has a unique way of dealing with the thirsty. The security official simply removes the bottle cap, hands you back ...

Chennai-ny Happy People!

A travel blog entry by tomandcharlie

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... cricket ball on his trousers - it's very off-putting!! Sorry, no photo - you'll just have to imagine...) Our time in Chennai has been a mixture of catching up on sleep after two nights' traveling and Charlie getting her 'kid fix' playing with the ...

Mamallapuram and thoughts on India

A travel blog entry by tavini

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The little town of Mamallapuram is the last stop of the Indian leg of our journey. We are flying out of Chennai airport on the 18th, but since Chennai has very little to offer a tourist besides the usual charms of a large Indian city (pollution, traffic ...

Our final India observations and travel tips

A travel blog entry by globedecker

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... seem to be more of a dumping ground than a place to relax. For example, the beach just kilometers from the big city of Chennai (which would certainly be expensive property if this were in the US), is a slum and some of the most impoverished area we have ...

Holiest of holies

A travel blog entry by jameybarrows

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... M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation- it helps poor communities by implementing eco-technology and sustainable agriculture throughout India’s various regions. They also support equality for women, who often endure tremendous abuses in impoverished ...

Touchdown, no bettter still, Meltdown

A travel blog entry by coopertrooper

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... comical but apparently this is the way they say yes. Just like we nod when we are agreeing with a comment. After three hours of Chennai we had had enough and took the bus two hours south to a town called Mamallapuram. Cooper Out Love Dan & ...

Chennai - Quick 4 hour stop.....

A travel blog entry by mikeandmarisha

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Loved this place as we flew into breath taking scenary and beautiful sunshine.... shame we weren't stopping!! Off we go for our connecting flight to ...

Music, films and...well... more temples

A travel blog entry by mightylongway

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Chennai We arrived in Chennai, the capital of the great Dravidian state - Tamil Nadu, after a surprisingly comfortable train journey. Chennai was, like Kolkata, full of homeless people and terrible poverty and somehow managed to smell even worse - the ...

Learn and burn

A travel blog entry by jameybarrows

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... a lot less fun). Anyway- there’s a lot to catch up on… it’s Sunday morning and I’ve been in Chennai (India’s fourth-largest city) since Friday. Here are some highlights: We met with a panel of Indian teachers who had each ...

Bollywood here we come!!

A travel blog entry by martinandheike

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... he saw more of it than moi). It was quite fun but we'd come on a quieter day maybe. We pootled about the centre of Chennai and made a few last purchases, including a Gay boy Tee-shirt with Elvis on the front for Martin, and we both got a decent ...

Lap of luxury

A travel blog entry by jameybarrows

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Just wanted to check in quickly to say we arrived safely in Chennai this morning. Our latest hotel is unbelievable!! I think I may have hit my saturation point for luxury. Anyway, we hit the streets tomorrow so I'll be getting a more realistic view soon ...

A Silent Revolution

A travel blog entry by jameybarrows

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... making to tailor instruction to students’ individual needs (an audacious goal for teachers everywhere). Tomorrow is our last day in Chennai. We start the day with a very early morning walking tour- perfect for beating the heat. We’ll move on ...

Madras

A travel blog entry by m-and-c

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To be honest we found this city a bit lacking ! It is India's forth largest city but we found little in the way of the atmosphere we have experienced elsewhere ! Yes it is possible we just couldn't find it in this huge city ? We did visit the largest ...

Military power!

A travel blog entry by benabroad

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... one other one is in Rome, i forget about the third). Then we saw he Kapaleeswarar temple, the luz church (the oldest church in Chennai) and then onto 2 government shops, where i did my 10 mins of 'hhhmmm, interesting' 'ooh, thats nice' and 'i quite like ...

Madras ( Chennai )

A travel blog entry by m-and-c

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We had a very short visit here as we arived at 10pm and we flew out again at 7 the next morning to the Andaman Islands. We will have a look around later as we will have to fly back here from the islands. ...

transit

A travel blog entry by jay29

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A travel blog entry by fouritchyfeet

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Hello people's, The journey has begun, arrived at 1am India time and to say it was daunting would be an understatement, at that time in the morning we saw 1 man asleep on the back of a motor bike, someone urinating in the street and groups of people ...

Chennai traffic (video)

A travel blog entry by bolluijt

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Short (50 sec) impression of the traffic in Chennai in front of the hotel. It was a constant flow of traffic, noisy and even more fun to be driven around in....Thank goodness Jeroen decided driving here wouldn't be in our best ...

Indian "Luxury"

A travel blog entry by blissmiss

... no more buses to Pondicherry, we would have to travel 6 hours to Chennai and then get another bus to Pondicherry. The bus to Chennai ended up being 8 hours long, not 6, and we were then dropped in the middle of nowhere in Chennai. After hours of walking ...

Orphanage and Hindu temple

A travel blog entry by seanmalonerules

My last day in India was spent in Chennai. My friend Greg and I sought out a nearby orphanage that was started by Mother Theresa. It was only about 2 miles from the ship and we took an auto-rickshaw there. The orphanage has an open door to S@S students ...

Colombo to Madras

A travel blog entry by susiewoo

... Bravely we at last wrote letters to our parents, telling them about my pregnancy. The flight back to India was very quick. We went by train into central Madras, then got a rickshaw to the Hotel Broadlands, a popular hippy hangout where Andy had stayed ...

The 1st connection

A travel blog entry by hornuts

... ; I was pretty much ko'd from the moment I got on the plane in Colombo, and woke up pretty disoriented in Chennai (arrival time was 440am). Fortunately, checking in, clearing immigration, claiming my bag, and switching terminals went fairly smoothly ...

Chennai

A travel blog entry by melindaoba

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J'ai pass� 2 semaines formidables chez Jacopo & Sheerja, � Chennai. Un couple adorable italo-indien (vous devinez qui est quoi...). J'avais d�j� pass� mes 2 derniers jours chez eux en 2009. Tommaso, un autre ami de Walter, mon prof de yoga, ...

Train to Chennai

A travel blog entry by jasieniukrtw

February 2 and 3 2009 The 39 hour train trip to Chennai Jim headed off to the hospital to take care of the billing issues that have cropped up. We think that the hospital has charged us three times about 500.00 when it should only be two times. We ...

Thailand

A travel blog entry by jodytomp

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... nbsp; Bad planning on our part, but we didn't know enough at the time we made our plans. Compared to India, Thailand is clean, organized, prosperous, and pleasant. I was really impressed with the road system. There are four and ...

Chennai

A travel blog entry by dianenew123

... out from here back to bangkok cant wait. Nothing much to say about the place bit boring same old shit as the rest of India reminding me why I cant wait until tomoro to be chilling out in Khao San Road with a nice cold beer, pumping tunes, friends, ...

Namaste!

A travel blog entry by bridgetbomhack

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... hundreds of people bathe themselves in the river every morning at sunrise because of the river’s religious importance. We flew back to Chennai later that day. In the Delhi airport we ate KFC and Pizza Hut. I bought Battleship to play on the ship. ...

Takin' care of business

A travel blog entry by carterbrown

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... some strings and get Lindsay in to at least fill out enough paper work so that she wouldn't have to make a special trip to Chennai again. After a half hour or so she had everything taken care of so we decided to go to a huge shopping plaza. ...

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Test drive across Sri Lanka

Arrival in Chennai

Innovative India

Chennai-ny Happy People!

Mamallapuram and thoughts on India

Our final India observations and travel tips

Holiest of holies

Touchdown, no bettter still, Meltdown

Chennai - Quick 4 hour stop.....

Music, films and...well... more temples

Learn and burn

Bollywood here we come!!

Lap of luxury

A Silent Revolution

Madras

Military power!

Madras ( Chennai )

transit

OMG!

Chennai traffic (video)

Indian "Luxury"

Orphanage and Hindu temple

Colombo to Madras

The 1st connection

Chennai

Train to Chennai

Thailand

Chennai

Namaste!

Takin' care of business