Grt Regency Madurai

... me or the other volunteers. I'm teaching English to start with, as unfortunately the 'monsoon' season is still lingering, washing away all the roads and making any football coaching pretty much impossible! Shouldn't last much longer though I'm told. School is closed on Friday so on Thursday evening we are planning to travel to Pondicherry, a former french colony near Chennai which, in parts, still resembles the shady boulevards of Paris apparently! Should be nice! As for Madurai ...

... was under some pressure! got there about 8, waited around til around 10, until we were called into a basement disco!! Broc & the others went to get set up & learn some dance moves, while I waited with the 'agent'!!! Then, one of the main fellows came over & asked would I take part, so I then went over to learn my moves!! Pa ha! twas some laff!! all in all it took us about an hour, whereas we'll probably only feature for about  seconds, if at all! After finishing up, we got food ...

... br> Summer Migrations<br>Situated on a picturesque cliff on the hilltops of Kodaikkanal, this 3 Star is a tranquil paradise at Villpatty Village. It has a lobby space designed with ethnic-style wooden furnitures and offer 14 spacious deluxe rooms, 11 standard rooms, and includes two luxurious suite rooms ...

... codziennym i obowiazkiem bylo obymywanie nog meza mlekiem, woda i sandalwood proszkiem (nie znam polskiego tlumaczenia) i nakladanie kwiatow - na szczescie kobiety wyzwolily sie troche i dzis robia to 3 razy w czasie pozycia malzenskiego - w czasie zaslubin, w 60 i 85-te rocznice slubu. Co 15 lat odbywa sie tu, w Sree Meenakshi Temple, ogromny festiwal, wiec cala swiatynia jest odnawiana, oczyszczana i malowana. Festiwal odbedzie sie w tym roku w kwietniu - 7-9.04.2009!

... to cut a western woman's hair that he dropped the comb five or six times. Our hotel was in the industrial area of the city and we enjoyed wandering around the streets where life was a fusion of old and new school and things were still being done by the traditional methods with a modern twist. Madurai is an active animated city and there isn't any sense of edginess there. One of the friendliest we have been to. It was quite early when we were ...

Oh so I got back to madurai just in time for the Pongal celebrations late at night. I checked in to my hotel and went to sleep only to be woken a couple of hours later by the noise of religious fever in the streets! Big drums banging and people dancing and celebrating. A look into the outside world delivered hundreds of men dresssed in black and all on thier way to the temple. I woke up late the next morning and used some sort of ...

Hallo! weer even een kort berichtje... we zijn intussen weer op rondreis, het laatste hoofdstuk van de reis is begonnen dus (snifsnif) maar er staan ons nog zeer leuke dingen te wachten de komende 2 weken dus ik ga niet klagen :) We zitten nu in Madurai. Kleine tegenvaller hier... de tempel waarvoor we eigenlijk naar hier kwamen staat volledig in de stellingen en er is dus nix van te ...

... man, we spoke about a hell of a lot of stuff. From there i met up with the guide and he took me back to shop where uncle was waiting for me. Uncle bought me water and some jasmine to put in my hair, but since I wasn't sure how to put it in my hair, and im not really a flower-in-your-hair type girl I didn't put it in my hair, just sniffed it lots :) high on jasmine :) on the way home, uncle headed off somewhere to do some preparations for the wedding, I was left with the ...

... a rooftop and then got a rickshaw to the bus st where we waited for the government bus we'd booked to Pondicherry. We arrived about 8pm, the bus was due in at half9, lucky for us there were some seats to wait in. So we sat.... and we waited. Got to half9 and there was no sign of our bus, the man behind the desk said it was late coming from somewhere and he'd tell us when it arrived. So we sat.... and we waited. Finally at 11.15 there seemed to be a bit of commotion at the man's desk ...

... week (though it seems like a short eternity, as does most time while traveling), and by NYC do I mean... Madurai! The place came to life ten-fold after dark. Businesses that were closed during the day were up and running, traffic on the streets multiplied, and there was a good air of commerce. It dawned on me at this time just how small the towns up in the mountains were. For relaxing and majestic and nice as they were, there really wasn't that much to do, other ...