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Madurai Slideshow
Madurai
Travel Blogs from Madurai, India
I hate India!...and random acts of kindness
After Amma's we travelled (first class night train) to Madurai in Tamil Nadu, and arrived at 6am during a power cut. We went to the Meenakshi Temple, a complex, colourful mandala of temples. Painted demons and gods adorning the outside, ...
In Madurai
... of happy children who loved finding out about us , where we were from, where we were going ..... everyone is so friendly . In Madurai now which has the largest and most spectacular temple - Sri Meenakshi (google it !) - so beautiful, large ...
Stoffer, misundelse og velsignede snabler
... virkelig er en fest. Efter ikke engang fulde tre uger er jeg allerede paa fornavn med en af de bedste, og billigste skraeddere i Madurai. Han er min stof pusher. Han har allerede soerget for jeg i min samling har fire par specialsyede bukser, to ...
HOT!!!
... hands and people wanted to take our picture constantly. Now I know what it feels like to be a celebrity. Our first stop in Madurai was a palace of an old ruler. Then we went to the Ghandhi museum. The Ghandhi museum old the history of India as well ...
Fodformede Indere
... af stålbakker med udsigt over Pasumalai. Pasumalai betyder forresten 'De grønne bakker' på Tamil og er en bydel af Madurai. Da Madurai er verdens største udviklede landsby, strækker den sig milevidt udfra centrum og de små landsbyer, som er blevet ...
trying to get in the temple
There was one main reason we stopped here in Madurai, which is to go to the Meenakshi temple. Meenakshi is a goddess that looks like a mermaid and translates to "fish eyed". It is one of the largest temple complexes in India and one of ...
Meenakshi Wedding Superstars
... get into the temple. We turned around and there was a little restaurant, we got some Dosa and tea and were satisfied. Madurai is a mesmerizing city. Its built in the shape of a mandala and has been virtually unchanged in hundreds of years. The temple ...
Ny rejse og ny ven
... bo hos, og som ville vise mig et stoerre tempel i Madurai og et museum om Gandhiji :) Mens jeg boede hos Sinthil i Madurai snakkede vi selvfoelgelig en masse sammen og jeg er virkelig glad for at Ruksana sendte mig til ham, for han er blevet en ...
Shore Temple and more
... service project of the Madras Craft Foundation for the promotion and preservation of the cultures of the diverse people of India, with the emphasis on Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, see www.dakshinachitra.net. The ...
Two days Madurai and great temples
... too complicated for us to understand. Meenakshi (Shiva' s wife), is the deity and protector of Madurai. According to the South India Lonely Planet edition of November 1998 there are 15 shrines, gopurams (towers) and mandapams (halls). ...
Madurai
... to sum up India in a nutshell. (google Mumbai airport slums!) After 27 hours without sleep, my connecting flight landed in Madurai. Nothing can prepare you for the culture shock - my journey from the airport involved negotiating a stampede of cattle, ...
Madurai
Madurai - more beggars, street hawkers, hooting mad traffic, dirt & grime. Saw my first pooing on the street episode. Made the mistake of using public toilets at the coach station..... my bare white buttocks poised over the open trough definitely caused a ...
Only 4 days left!!
The goodbyes were not easy. Amie and I were excited for Goa and beyond but we were leaving Sonya and Lisa and all our Virudhunagar pals behind. After a few last visits with my new friends, it was time to pack and finish work at the hospital! The night ...
les voyages ca forme rien du tout !! ou alors ...
... j ai pas encore trop bosse le tamoul l hinglish ( hindi-english ... ) reste en soi une experience pleine de surprises ceci dit Madurai ( 1M 200m hab.): un des temples hidou les plus celebres, tres colores, vous verrez, des pelerins en masse et presses qui ...
Last day at school & Parties!
Wednesday 10th February This evening Anthony surprised us with a goodbye party at the school – he had decorated one of the classrooms with flowers and had bought nuts, coke and a cake. Raja, IT man and Geetha & Mani were also there. Anton ...
Madurai and the Sri Meenakshi Temple
We get a sleep-in morning today, with a 10am departure from our fantastic mansion in Kanadukathan. The drive is just two hours to Madurai, and some of it is actually on four-lane highway, as opposed to the country roads we have been traveling on for many ...
Small world after all
... on us like vipers trying to see who would get our business for a ride to the hotel. It was a 6 hour train trip to Madurai which is a fairly large city. We booked our hotel online and so I was wondering what we were going to find once we got ...
Indiske skriblerier
... indtil jeg besluttede mig for, at jeg skal vaere her i to maaneder, og when in Rome... Flyet der floej mig til Madurai gjorde mig mere bange end toiletsituationen. Traepaneler og propeller. Faldt i soevn af stress og vaegnede heldigvis foerst da vi lagde ...
Chikungunya
... " Silent Night. I'm pretty sure it's a universally accepted truth that Silent Night cannot be "rocked", but I appreciated the compliment anyway! Their unwavering politeness never fails to amaze me, and it's one thing that I'll never forget about India. ...
Madurai
(At least please read below for description of temple.) I arrived in Madurai yesterday from Kodaikanal, after a pleasant journey down through the mountains. Same situation after stepping off the bus, the normal clan of rickshaw drivers and touts, ...
Der Tage zwei in Madurai
Gestern nach 4-stündiger Busfahrt im quirligen, aber für eine Großstadt sehr angenehmen Madurai gelandet. Wir sind damit im Bundesstaat Tamil Nadu angekommen, den wir bis zu unserer Abreise auch nicht mehr verlassen werden. Unser Hotel ist eine ...
foto, foto | photo photo
... . ---------------------------------------------------- After breakfast a rickshaw tour is planned. A tiny guy cycles me and a travel companion around in Madurai. Sometimes we (tourists) are too heavy and he has to push his bike uphill. During the ride I ...