Fortune Chariot Beach Resort Mamallapuram

... we did not get to enjoy the full view for most of the ride. Soon after passing through some of the towns, I already noticed many of the differences between North India and South India. If the people did not look the same, I would sometimes think that they are two different countries. South India is so much more green, with palm trees and grass growing everywhere. The streets also seem less crowded and there are fewer vendors lining the roads here. Another major ...

... monotonous and boring but I got some nice rest and I was able to sketch what I will be doing for the next four weeks. When comparing Indian and Chinese trains, I have to admit that there is not much of a difference. They both work great, are quite on schedule and the on board service is quite similar, the only worth mentioning difference being that trains are cheaper and cleaner in India (may be because in India they throw the trash through the window ...

Despite being exhausted last night I could not sleep at all. At 2AM I was still laying on the sheets (it was so hot that I left my bed to take a shower to try to cool myself down and met some nice big roaches on the way to the bathroom). We had breakfast on the beach in the same restaurant as last night. Two Northern European blond hair hippies were there. They looked like they had been in India for a very very long time…. They ...

Dialect from conversations in Mamallapuram:-<br> <br>"Hi.................... you've just arrived let me just give you some tips...............Don't go to the rose garden cafe because a friend of mine was there, actually a couple, right, and what they did right, it sounds like right, they were eating, right, and her back was on the table-just like yours is now, and someone, right, walked ...

... eyes and flicking V's at me, and I didn't like it. When the power was finally restored, we turned on the television to see the Mumbai attack in full swing. We were flabbergasted. The mood in India changed after that; you could sense it in the air. I know the feeling well because it was the same feeling that I had had in London after the bombings there - a sense that somehow your world had been violated and transformed into something sinister. It's not that we felt unsafe at all ...

... these people were not very assertive in hounding me, for it happened only several times that groups of boys would come up and say hello and shake hands multiple times, smiling. And one other interesting thing about this clan was that the girls and women were all very friendly and inviting of me, posing for pictures and smiling and waiving and calling me over to their claim. Normally, girls and women in India are much more shy or traditional or uninviting ...

... did not throw the cloth hard enough and only managed to leave it half way between me and the magician.... the snake seemed confused for a little bit, and when the magician quickly picked up the cloth, it tried attacking it several times. After this, the snake turned to us, and lunged forward, it was merely a few inches away from Jaime's leg! (This is when you think HOLY ****!!!) We were expecting to feel a sharp bite at ...

... for how long are you in India?how do you like India?are you traveling alone?why? are you married?do you have a boyfriend?why not?where is your family?how many siblings do you have?....and after their curiosity is eased, warm wishes of a safe and pleasant journey follow (and sometimes along with delicious food!). From Kolkata I headed to Pondicherry, located in the southeast near Chennai, arriving in the late night (or early morning, depending on how you view ...

... where children now routinely skip school to demand sweets and pens from passing trekkers, enough of whom oblige to keep the scourge alive. Thirdly, stories abound of adults mutilating their children (or the children of others) in order to arouse the sympathy of others and thus increase the takings. Whether these stories are true or not it is difficult to say but the image of the young boy sitting in the gutter minus a foot is far more likely to get people to dig into their ...

... and went into the fort compound fuming.<br><br>There wasn't much to see in the fort. Just a few offices and a couple of shops. The museum was closed - as was Clive's house. Luckily there is a little Anglican church there called St John's which seems to have been teleported intact from some rustic English hamlet. Inside this peaceful church there were many floorstones marking the burial spots of the earliest empire-builders. I reasoned that they couldn't all have been ...