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Travel Blogs from Chennai, India
Happy birthday...
TO YOU Voilà les photos de notre star du jour. Gâteau pain perdu, bougies et Joyeux Anniversaire en hindi (pour info Patrick, on parle tamoul par ici!! :))... Il ne reste plus qu'à entamer la boîte de foie gras et la bouteille de champagne pour ...
Homestay Day 1
... . Prabha insisted that I come back to India and I bring Timmy with me. I think that is going to have to happen. I had such an amazing time, and I stayed in Chennai the whole time. There is so much more of India to see, and I can't wait to come ...
Welcome back to the Motherland
... , Santa and me all made it to our final destinations, my checked luggage did not (damn you American Airlines). Upon reaching Chennai at 3:30am, I waited for an hour and half with other passengers who came from the US to file a claim on my ...
Mudhumalai is out of nightmare now
... in the same route we took since we were already sick of afraidness to explore new route at this moment. Finally we reached Chennai at 7.10pm. This was such a great wonderful trip and everyone is happy.... I can say now.. We crossed the bridge so we ...
Arrived in Chennai
Arrived safely in Chennai...although it is almost 3am on Sunday morning. I didn't get any sleep the night I left Bulgaria so it's been a long day. Of course, I slept for almost the entire flight...including sleeping through however long it took them to ...
First impressions of India
... 5 rupees. Indians are intelligent and wiley; humble, hard-working, and accepting, as well. I also visited the US Consulate in Chennai and the University of Madras (aka Chennai). The US Consulate was every bit as much a fortress as you would imagine. ...
Drive it with passion "A good Weekend"
I have been told..... always be choosy to pick right friends for right spot where ever you go....else you will go with passion and kill the time but you don't enjoy the time. It is always best to be alone if you cannot pick right friends, try to ...
Visiting friends in Chennai
... Indian cuisine, it was time to venture off south to visit a family friend from home, Clarice, in southern India. Clarice runs a mission in Chennai, Teacup Ministries - a place for the less fortunate to gather, worship, receive minor medical treatment, ...
MANIKAVASAKAM
2985lM ip+6L'/kYESTERDAY I BEG FOR FOUR HOURS AND I GET RUPEES 12./-, AT THAT TIME 'HUY9 jio{/E,.[] -BN[;' KF/O P3KDC ...
Day 28 - Chennai
... days; he was such a nice man. He gave us his address so we can look him up for our next trip to India. Chennai airport was very crowded. It is old and is being renovated. I was disappointed because we went through many airports in India; ...
India: Beautiful People, but the food...
... to go with some other people that I’m in a bible study with on ship to help out at this organization called Harvest India, 6 hours away from Chennai. But, as time got closer, I just felt like God was saying He didn’t want me to do that, so I ...
FUCK MADRAS!!!
... ma vie! On decide d'aller voir le musee, qui charge le gros prix meme si la moitie des galleries sont fermees. C'est suppose etre Chennai's best... ca promet! On se fait carrement voler a chaque fois qu'on prend un rickshaw. On decide d'aller au cinema ...
Wednesday- 1st week
... rupees (equivalent to 4 dollars) which included being seen by the doctor and the medication. Funny how a trip to the hospital in India is cheaper then most people's daily Starbucks latte. This evening we went to SEAM and started the inventory of the boys ...
Thursday- 1st week
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do." - Johnnetta B. Cole We met, as we always do, at 8:30AM for breakfast and ...
Chennai, India
... I can move at my own pace. The disadvantage is that I don't get to see behind the scenes. The Chennai/Madras zoo has a claim to being the oldest in India, having being founded in 1855. I don't believe this is a claim that they can hang on to. The ...
J'ai testé pour vous ... le bus de nuit
Il est vendredi, 21h30, devant un pseudo arrêt de bus à T Nagar, une feuille volante RedBus en guise de billet à la main, le petit sac à dos de rando rempli de spray anti ...
CHENNAI A.K.A MADRAS
... , colleges , chuches, temple , multinationals , the longest beach in asia and the tamil film industry. Personally i have visited chennai inumerable times right from my childhood. My visit to the zoo is a memorable one. I visited the zoo ...
India Travels
... . We also went to a park to enjoy the great weather. It was a perfect day of relaxing before our flight back to Chennai. Overall, my time is India was amazing. Any ...
Arriving in India
... colours, so many smiles, so much poverty! The biggest shock for me was the rubbish ... absolutely everywhere! I was also in Chennai during their second monsoon season, so the roads were half flooded... had to traipse through rubbish and brown water... ...
Chennai
... got off at the next station and waited for the next (correct) train and carried on with our overnighter. Chennai is a big place, the fourth largest city in India. We found our hotel and settled in, just before it started raining. It absolutely poured it ...
Water buffaloes are swell
Notice the time. I am 10.5 hours ahead of you back at home, so there is the possibility that you will read this and be transported foreward in time. How very cool is that? I had a great day today. I changed rotations today, and moved to large animal ...
Good bye India
Its hard to believe as i stand in noisy Que n Chennai airport- waiting to check into my flight to Singapore, that Ive only been in this country 3months- during this time Ive left my teenage years behind, seen in 2011, learnt to wag my head like an indian, ...
Zoo!!
Went to the zoo today with children from 11th standard from Padma Adarsh school. xansa arranged it for an educational trip so they had to write facts about the animals in English...none of them did anything of course, but all the volunteers were ...
Underwhelming start
... What's with all the doctors on these tours? At least I'm getting lots of medical advice for my elephant foot. Chennai is pretty standard for a large Indian city. We visited a museum where I'm convinced some of the displays were ...
India: The land of extreme contridictions!
... . I was sheltered for 3 days so I wasn't bothered but if I had been I think I would have felt similarly. A speaker told us that if India didn't move us then we are not human. I am not sure I was moved- 'guess I'm not human. I saw people squatting to poop ...
Saints, Temples, and Cyclones... OH MY!
... to see all the details in these places. Also, most of the doors are made of gold. They are beautiful! (http://www.chennai.org.uk/religious-places/temples/index.html) Of course we had to hit up Marina Beach one last time! Riz hadn't been ...
Manapakkam, Meditation & the Master
... of her explorations. Which brings us nicely to this weekend, where Emily, Laura, Hayley and I have found ourselves in Manapakkam, Chennai after a 4 hour journey at the heart of the Sahaj Marg meditation world staying with a friend of my dad's right next ...
Streets
... for those weak of stomach. We actually didn't end up taking our picture in the sarees yesterday, that got delayed. Things in India are on a completely different time scale, and nothing is ever absolute. So, plans change by the minute, and you just ...
This is when travelling alone kinda blows...
... sod who I will most defnitiely talk their ear off. Yesterday I started out early, which is apparently very strange for Chennai-ites. I wandered along the filthy, litter strewn beach, avoiding half dead dogs and very skinny horses who seemed to be grazing ...