Hotel Angel Tirupur
391, Avinashi Road Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, 641 602, India
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Vivanta by Taj
We must be the first guests to have arrived at 'Vivanta by Taj' (to be said in a camp Liverpudlian accent) on foot for many a long year but, to the credit of the well-trained staff, there is only the briefest shadow of doubt passed from face to face as we rock up red and sweating and announce that we have a reservation.
We got off the local bus from Mamallapuram one stop too early but, not knowing this, began the three kilometer ...
An education in Indian train classes!
... about 10 hours) we'd had about 3 hours sleep the previous night and one of our friends in Varkala had bought a couple of bottles of wine to toast our last night so we were hungover and sleep deprived! The edge was soften somewhat by the fact that we were in a 3AC coach for the first time. We've always traveled 'sleeper' class up until that point and it was like traveling in luxury!
for people who ...
Metupalaiyam , not a nice place
... the bridge we found the train and started walking towards number 14, but there was no number 14, so we asked this guy sticking bits of paper on the train, he pointed us to the other end of the train, or as they say here "back side", so we walked the length of the train again to the “back side” and found our coach. The trip to Coimbatore was good, apart from having an incessant sniffer in the same compartment, ...
Back "Home"
Day 1
22/9-2010
We called it Being back at home when we
came back to Elna's this is because it was so nice to have a
«homebase» and also because of Elna's big heart an apartment for
ourselves. With a little lack of sleep we came back to Tirupur around
4pm, but we did not have the keys to the apartment because we gave
them to Elna before we left so we called up Mutho so that he could
bring us the keys. While we ...
Elna
Day 1 - 18/9 - Tirupur
Get up at 0900 in Thrissur and fix the first of our tickets to get up to Tirupur and visit my mom's good friend Elna :) Sabu Joseph (The manager at Vedic resort) would like us to stay for one more night all for free! We really would like to, but our time in India is ticking and we sadly have to decline. First ride is the 38km rickshaw ride to the bus station in Thrissur. With me and Atle cramped up in the back with both our 20kg+ bags on ...


