Chennai (Madras), India Travel Blogs

Chennai - Quick 4 hour stop.....
Nov 18, 2008

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 Columbo....

Arrival in Chennai
Jul 5, 2008 (5 photos)

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 ...

Mamallapuram and thoughts on India
Jan 16, 2009 (30 photos)

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 ...

Chennai-ny Happy People!
Oct 8, 2007 (13 photos)

... 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 local street ...

Touchdown, no bettter still, Meltdown
Aug 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... , and take us to a very cheap and nice hotel a few streets away. With no other options we jumped in and drove around Chennai for the next hour going from one closed or full hotel to the next. After the rickshaw driver had exhausted all his options he ...

Music, films and...well... more temples
Mar 5, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 main ...

Bollywood here we come!!
Dec 10, 2004 (1 photos)

... 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 ...

Military power!
Dec 16, 2007

... 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 ...

Chennai traffic (video)
Dec 30, 2008 (1 photos)

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 interest.... 

The Last Vindaloo!
Oct 30, 2006 (2 photos)

I only had a day in Chennai (Madras) and I was pretty lucky I did because the day before I arrived that had had some pretty serious flooding, which had killed dozens of people. Alot of the city was still under water, and it stopped me from going out and ...

Orphanage and Hindu temple
Oct 23, 2005

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 ...

The 1st connection
Sep 15, 2007

... 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 ( ...

Train to Chennai
Feb 4, 2009

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
Mar 19, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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
Nov 15, 2008

... 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!
Oct 28, 2009 (39 photos)

... 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. Like I ...

Takin' care of business
Aug 28, 2009

... 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.  ...

Chennai
Mar 23, 2007 (4 photos)

... because they don't have shoes (Our Rickshaw driver kept his on the floor of the Rickshaw). They also have lovely beaches in Chennai, but under no circumstances should you wear your bathing suit there. And if you do go into the water (I would suggest ...

Holiest of holies
Jul 21, 2009 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Goodbye paradise, hello Chennai
Dec 6, 2000

... milky coffee at the New India Coffee House, we went to the airport and checked in for our flight to Chennai (i.e the city formerly known as Madras). The security was the tightest yet and I had to explain why I was transporting films on my person (that is, ...

Chennai, or is it Madras?
Jan 27, 2009

... first sight, Chennai seemed to lack the charms and attractions of the other hubs of the South. Founded by the British, Madras or Chennai, was nothing more than an administrative centre for the British Raj, and as such was not built with grandiose plans and ...

South to Tamil Nadu
Jul 4, 2005

... : divorced) or "Disabled" sections. Sigh. Good thing I'm not looking for an arranged marriage! We got in at about 9:30 to Chennai, and luckily Laurel had called ahead to make a reservation, so all we had to do was survive the taxi ride to the hotel... ...

A day of gifts
Aug 22, 2008

... in a busy part of town. I don't recall the district, but it's an old place and is what used to be central Chennai before the city began to grow. There are bicycle rickshaws there. The rents are high because it's centrally located, but despite that many ...

Rickshaw adventures
Oct 19, 2005 (2 photos)

Chennai is the forth largest city in India and the capital of Tamil Nadu. Before I start describing my experience in India, I want to say that it is definitely the toughest country to make sense of out of the places I have visited so far. India is huge, ...

BAMF and MSMF
Feb 12, 2009 (10 photos)

... (MSMF) in Kakinanda. Both these organizations were set-up by individuals from Ottawa who lost their entire families in the Air India crash in 1985.  Out of this tragedy, they created hope and a future for others.  We support both these ...

India...a new adventure everyday!
Mar 19, 2009 (24 photos)

Hello again! Two massive long blogs in four days...oh you lucky people!! Can't believe it's my last day in India today! boooo! Am in Chennai with quite a few hours to pass so thought I'd use up some of my last few rupees on the internet! ...

Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu
Dec 15, 2006

15 hour overnight sleeper train ride to Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu

India
Mar 9, 2009 (8 photos)

... because of the dual meaning of the word "refuse" - the noun and the verb.    Along the streets around Chennai (Madras) some piles of trash are partially burned.  So maybe refuse is kept nearby as a convenient source of fuel.  I also ...

Last thoughts
Aug 29, 2008

... barriers a meter (3 feet) or so high, or a series of stones strategically laid down the center of the road. In Chennai (and other cities, I suppose) there are a lot of one way streets connected by what can only be described as semi-roundabouts; you enter ...

Sunday August 10, 2008
Aug 10, 2008

... I've ever visited is Western North Carolina where the stench of the paper mills flows up the valley like an invisible fog. Chennai is no different. I don't know what the garbage disposal situation is, but there was a lot of it laying around. There's also ...