Hotel Chentoor Madurai

So with alan and his poorly tummy we made our way to Kolkata (Calcutta) via the overnight train, god was smiling on us as we had noone in the bunks opposite so we were spared the pleasure of loud snoring all night. Arrived and found a 'charming' little guesthouse with no windows which we stayed in waiting for our flight down south. Alan really was poorly, d & v combined with flu and acid indigestion does not make a happy boy, we spent a ...

... laidto the main temple. To be honest, it was a bit of a let down! I think this was because it was in the town & found it hard to differentiate between the different walls. The second temple was a mass of steps/stairs, 200 i all, so we just seemed to walk & walk, eventually when we did get to the top, the view was unreal!<br>We headed back to the hostel to collect bags & try to make our way to Cochin. There was no direct route from Trichy, so had to take a 3hr detour to Madurai ...

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... to get on the right bus to Vadakarai and to the door of my lovely friends I had a met a couple of days before who had invited my food loving self to join them for Pongal which is a harvest festival if I didn't mention that before.I met the family on a train ride earlier in the month and they were so nice, mother called Rani which is queen so I called her Queenie, was a typical Tamil feeder mother, I couldn't resist! I arrived to a ...

... typisch... maaaaar toch heel blij dat we naar hier zijn gekomen. Een zalig stadje vol van de typische indische sfeer maar op een relatief rustige manier. Waarschijnlijk zegt dit jullie nix maar neem het van me aan, een leuk stadje om wat in rond te wandelen... Verder heb ik niet echt veel nieuws... het weer is hier op het moment weer schitterend. De laatste dagen vonden we het af ...

... driver and instructions for tomorrow mornings sightseeing pickup time. The rickshaw took me to an internet cafe. He waited for me to finish ( i was there for about an hour). i wasn't sure why he waited, just that uncle told him to wait. Once i finished, he took me back to the hotel room. In my complete and utter ignorance of what uncle told the driver, i asked the driver how much it the fare was after we got to the hotel room. He laughed at me and said 300 rupees please. I ...

I'm sure it happens to the best of 'em... That is, travel weariness. I like to think that I am superhuman, and can take an immense amount of adventure, travel, hotel matters, buses, dirty hands, germs, hassles, touts, sights, bathroom location problems, and thousands of other oh-such-fun things that come along with travel that you may or may not be aware of. I have been in India over a month now, though it seems as though it has been an eternity. I would ...

... relax and take it easy, which was cool. Here now I was emerging in some busy commercial district with everything under the sun for sale from clothes to DVDs and CDs to electronics and anything else your little heart might desire. I don't know what it is, but being in the middle of something like this just makes me intensely appreciative of India and I just love scenes like this. It is so much fun to do something so simple as wander the streets, with the most ...