Adithya Hotel Thanjavur

... two Buris each with sauce and poured drinking tap water and we tucked in. It was definitely not quite breakfast material, but we ate them and washed our saucy, greasy hands and moved on towards the bus station.

People in a row were publicly urinating into the ditches or against walls and without batting an eyelid, everybody walked on by. We wandered aimlessly, thinking that we could do with a beer, so we looked for a shop, initially, until we realized that people do not sell ...

... pelerins. Le lendemain, on se retrouve au meme endroit mais de plein jour et avec un guide on se redecouvre le lieu antique qui nous apparait un peu different sous les informations du vieux bonhomme. On a enfin un peu compris les differences entre Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu, leurs avatars ou reincarnations selon le dieu.Enfin cela reste quand meme un peu confus et complexe. En tout cas on a compris le moument representant Shiva, il n'est jamais represente sous forme de statue ...

... Folk paa gaden er meget interesserede i at tale med os. Vi blir hele tiden stoppet. Det er nogengange svaert at vurdere om de vil os godt eller daarligt. Men dem vi har moedt indtil videre har vaeret soede. Men man holder lige ekstta godt oeje med sine ting. Om aftenen besoeger vi templet med lys paa - det er flot og stemningsfuldt. Neaste morgen koerer vi til Trichy - vi er meget spaendte.

... elections here, that our country may finally make a rational decision about who their next leader will be. I feel totally out of the loop here! Next time you hear from me I will be in Sri Lanka probably SCUBA diving. The capital, Colombo, sounds a bit like Chennai, large and very uninteresting, so I'm going to try and take a bus straight to a beach/diving town a couple hours south of the capital. Hope you are well. peace, Jen

... headed back to the old town bazaar area. It turned out that the Auspicious day was not just good for weddings, but also for the opening of a temple and we'd arrived bang slap in the middle of a massive festival. It is hard to describe how busy, loud and confusing it all was. We were the only white people around and everyone wanted to tell us things, get us to look at things and generally ask us "from which country are you coming?". There were hundreds of people crammed into the small ...

... no sugar please!" "No sugar?!" (with surprise) "Yes, no sugar, with milk" "Okay, okay, milk coffee, no sugar" 40% of the time, I end up drinking my coffee with lots of sugar and a good dose of humor. On the only evening I spend in Thanji, instead of dinner I had massala nuts and few beers with Sean and bunch of local guys (no women in sight) in the only bar in town (could be the only legal bar). Next morning, I ...

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 temple. L'autre, le ...

... and temple mere amazing. Unlike most in the area they were not painted, more natural and massive. We found a quiet place to sleep under a tree for the afternoon before heading back to the guesthouse for an early night. Czech - Nase cestovani se pomalu ale jiste stava skutecnosti pri zjisteni ze jsme ujeli uz pres 700 km za pouhy tyden, jeden den jsme stravili v meste Chidambaram ktere nas nicim nezaujalo, ale byla to jedna zastavka do Tanjavuru, pokoj kde jsme zustal byl sileny ...

... gemaakt op de armen van onze 2 proefkonijnen Ellen en Marianne. 1008 nandi's : 1+0+0+8=9 216 feet : 2+1+6=9 18 wachters : 1+8=9 9 toonhoogten van lachen 9 lengtes op het lichaam 9 openingen in het lichaam 72 hartslagen/min : 9 21600 x inademen/dag : 9 270 dagen zwanger : 9 Alles komt uit op 9!! Ook de betekenis van de tikka (stip op het voorhoofd) werd uitgelegd nl ...

Our weekend trip was really fun! It was so exhausting, but very enjoyable. Friday we jsut spent travelling. Our hotel was fantastic. It was so fancy, we were treated extremely well. The place had a pool and real showers! How fun is that? Saturday we went out for the day, we went all over the place. Our hotel was in Trichy, but the other places we went were a bit away, so we had a van cart us around. We stopped at a temple that was built 1,000 years ago, and ...