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Ashok Lodge Thanjavur

, 93, Adraham Panditha Road Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

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Les grands temples vivant Chola

A travel blog entry by viceninde

9

... et après 5h à naviguer entre méditation et spiritualité on sort du temple et on tombe sur … une foule amassée devant un éléphant !!! Toutes les personnes qui vont dans le temple, dépose une pièce de quelques roupies dans la trompe de notre éléphant puis il la dépose en haut du crâne (NB : pour tous les défenseurs des animaux : l’éléphant n’aspire pas la pièce, il la donne ensuite à son maître : c’est ...

Month-a-versary

A travel blog entry by martandlog

29

... to have a chap come up and ask where we were going – once I told him he told us it was leaving from platform 4 – that would have been a nightmare if we missed a train after 2 hours of waiting! Indians are very helpful like this but I’m never sure if they are telling me the correct information, I’m always a bit dubious of taking advice from complete strangers – I should probably trust them ...

Tender coconut

A travel blog entry by yesfaceman

... o'clock a student of his, Suresh, would come to pick me up and take me to one of the orphanages out of town. He told me to take my camera, to avoid spicy food and that he had already told Suresh that I was scared of the traffic and not to drive his motorbike too fast. I smiled and laughed it off, but was secretly thinking that Joseph was starting to know me a little too well. I had at least an hour and a half to wait, so I washed and got dressed, and then sat and played my ...

Catholic?! Yeah, course I am...

A travel blog entry by yesfaceman

... this environment. I am well and truly out of my comfort zone, which is exacerbated by the fact that I feel trapped inside a body that is not functioning as it should. Although I am in good spirits and am in love with the people and the place, I am on edge. I have travelled all over Europe, often on my own or with a friend and been totally comfortable and ready to embrace anything that comes my way. Here, however, I am a fish out of water.

We went on the motorbike to ...

Acclimatising to food and locals

A travel blog entry by yesfaceman

... shakes. I was maintaining a healthy 65kg, and to drop below 60 would be devastating. I let Joseph do the ordering and within seconds a waiter boy bowled over and slammed down a plate with a huge and roughly folded crepe-style thing. There was a curried lentil soup thing with it and I started munching slowly and with a lot of trepidation. I have now accepted the fact that I am most likely to get ill again, but I'd rather force-feed and have something to chunder than be ...