Tiruchirappalli, India Travel Blogs

The rock fort temple
Jan 2, 2008 (10 photos)

... it saddened us to see people so money driven working there. Maybe this is the legacy that us tourists have left behind in India, i don't know.         After talking to a few people, we did get some facts about religion ...

Das grosse Krabbeln!
Feb 8, 2009 (9 photos)

Der Plan fuer heute war dann, erstmal mit dem Bus nach Villupuram zu fahren und dort in den Bus nach Trichy umzusteigen. Eigentlich wollten wir direkt fahren, aber der Bus fur leider nur frueh morgens, oder spaet abends. Nach einer guten Stunde waren wir ...

Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), Tamil Nadu
Dec 23, 2006

1.5 hour bus ride to Trichy.

Temple Overkill
Aug 12, 2006 (5 photos)

... . And today we visited the biggest temple complex of them all, the largest in India. I guess it will make sleeping tonight even more troublesome. Tiruchirappalli (universally known as Trichy) was our next destination and we didn't make the same ...

Trichy & Chennai
Oct 17, 2008 (4 photos)

... I fly out of Chennai to go to Sri Lanka. Well I got bored and decided to take the bus about 6 hours to Tiruchirappalli, AKA Trichy. It's a bustling town of about 800,000 people with a few nice temples to visit. The highly recommended Rock Fort Temple, ...

Boernehjemmet og Trichy
Feb 14, 2009 (44 photos)

Hej alle Vi har desvaerre ingen billeder endnu, men nu skal I hoere om besoget paa boernehjemmet. Det var jo hovedformaalet med denne rejse. Nana kan ikke sove, saa v staar tidligt op og koerer mod Trichy i en bil uden Air Con.. Om eftermiddagen ...

A Day in Trichy
Sep 11, 2009 (12 photos)

... two names - one that is the older, native name and the other that is easy for foreigners to pronounce.  Trichy, also known as Tiruchirappalli, is one of those examples. We went out in Trichy with a guide for the day.  Our first stop was the Sri ...

Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)
Nov 7, 2007 (27 photos)

Me voilà à Trichy. Cette fois c'est une assez grande ville (847 000 habitants). Cette ville comporte deux temples dont un perché sur une colline rocheuse : le Rock Fort Temple. Moi c'que j'en dis, c'est qu'à part la vue, ben y a rien a voir dans ce ...

A Passage to India
Aug 31, 2007 (4 photos)

... a previous four continents. Flew from Colombo's easily pronounceable Bandaranaike International Airport to the more tongue-caressing Tiruchirappalli in India with Sri Lankan Airways (the only flight I've been on where the stewardesses all walk around with ...

Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)
Mar 19, 2008

March 19- The train station was only 2 blocks from where I stayed in Madurai, so instead of taking a local bus back to the bus station, I bought a train ticket. It cost $1.50 for a 3 hour ride north to the city of Trichy in a 3rd class seating car. The ...

The temples of Trichy
Jan 4, 2008 (5 photos)

We departed Chennai yesterday morning on a train headed for Tiruchirappalli (otherwise known as Trichy), pretty much in the central part of the state of Tamil Nadu, arriving in early afternoon. After checking in to an average hotel at best, we ...

Many A Sadhu In Tamil Nadu
Mar 24, 2009 (37 photos)

... jester trousers that a tailor made in Madurai are lucky pants because the state bus was a dream ride from Rameswaram to Tiruchirappalli (Trichy). The bus was a rattler playing Hindi music but the driver was a safe one and the conductor was gold storing& ...

Incredible India...
Feb 2, 2009

... a train to Hampi that same night, but the train was full so we had to spend the night. Banglore represents modern India with many locals dressed in western clothes and shunning their ancestry. They are young, upwardly mobile and trying to live the ...

Temples, temples, temples, temples
Mar 7, 2005

Yeah, after Udaipur I decided to have a little break from temples and I managed pretty well, except for one detour at Cochin (or perhaps it was Ernakulam, I'm not sure anymore). We (that is, I and Yotam) thought of going to Madurai to see the famous ...

Into India
Feb 4, 2009

... hello and goodbye again, to say hello yet again, with my best friend from home, into the holy, pilgrimmage city of Tiruchirappalli (so named Trichy by the Brits). After two weeks of one of the biggest emotional and physical binges of my life surrounded by ...

Leaving the Dumas behind
Aug 4, 2007

This won't make any sense unless you were there when the joke came about, and as there's nothing else to say, I haven't said anything more!

hefrom trichy
Apr 13, 2009

well hello peeps been trichy for 2 days it is a very dusty city but great temple will try and download some pictures soon  most of the internet cafes dont have usb sockets , anyway i sent yesterday travelling from pondicherry via ...

Thanjore/Thrichy
Nov 8, 2008 (4 photos)

... ; We ran through 8 temple in 2 days and these are not small temples but some of the largest and most significant ones in South India.  A couple were a little out of the city and I don't think many, if any, travelers ever go there.  A few had huge ...

Trichy for short
Oct 29, 2008 (16 photos)

We had a change of mind when in Puducherry and decided to head for Trichy instead of Madurai which turned out to be a great decision because the main attraction in Madurai - the temple, is covered over for restoration.  There were some really ...

Weekend advenure
May 24, 2004

... fun, they don't know what to think when you take their picture and can show it to them right away on a digital camera. Most of India has no problem staring directly at you, as white people are rare as beef here. Little kids and grown men are the worst, ...

Business in Trichy
Jan 26, 2008

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Red dust and a whole new world - Welcome to India
Nov 2, 2009 (37 photos)

... flight was uneventful, blissful sleep, as usual, though our necks were in bad pass when we got off to the 28 degrees of Tiruchirappalli, the back end of Tamil Nadu, the airport as big as Tirgu Mures in Romania, nothing there but a building and a runway ...

Trust "Tricky"
Apr 6, 2009 (9 photos)

So Mamallapuram scared the s**t out of me and despite being reduced to tears by a ‘man’ who insisted on following me until I had to scream (not in my nature) Pondi rejuvenated me. Pondi also reminded me that sometimes it’s more fun ...

Back in India
Jan 9, 2009

... high and carved out of stone and painted in crazy colours as all the temples here are. I am so glad to be back in India. I then got involved in a sari auction. I am very happy about this, I had been dreading Sari shopping, I went with someone else a while ...

Day 340 - Trichy
Apr 1, 2009

188,237 kms

back to horrible Ashby Hotel
May 7, 2008

Couldn't believe we ended up staying in the Ashby again.... was a little better with clean sheets, but the cockroach in the room didn't please me. We found out the next day that even our chocolate was stollen from the fridge! Not sure if we had the ...

The Mottai Boss..!!
Dec 6, 2007

Actually as per our tradition we need to put tonsure to my baby 3 times before her first b'day. The first one, we had already finished in our native place, Varagur. Considering the work pressure and the leaves available we decided to put the remaining two ...

AE Accompaniment
Aug 9, 2008 (7 photos)

staying in hotel

steps and temples in trichy
May 5, 2008 (6 photos)

Apart from the hotel being horrible and dirty -I have now idea how we ended up staying there Trichy is a nice place. Can't believe you can get on the internet for 10 rps/15p an hour and eating at Sree Krishnas on a balcony next to a water fountain ...

Overwhelmed in Trichy!
Jan 26, 2008 (21 photos)

... a 6 hour bus journey from Pondicherry, complete with a stoppage for some sort of breakdown further ahead, we arrived in Tiruchirappalli - more conveniently known as Trichy. As usual we planned to find a hotel when we arrived, and there were plenty ...