Hotel Supreme Madurai
West Perumal Maistry St 110 Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 625 001, India
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The Cream of Kerala
After a few train connections (the last one being an overnight train from Coimbatore departing at 1am), we made it to Ernakulam, the new city a 20-minute ferry ride away from historic Fort Cochin.
Cochin is a real relic of colonial times, heaving with large old warehouses and merchants' mansions from the 18th and 19th centuries - which …
The City We Could Have Skipped
Not a very happy title, we know... but we'll try to explain. Maybe we should start at the beginning... so we left wonderful Munnar a couple of days ago and started the long, draining bus ride to Madurai. Don't get us wrong, the ride was beautiful - we went slowly from a tea-covered hills to mountains to then sort of a jungle (Michal kept looking …
Madurai
We've crossed the border into Tamil Nadu. We slummed it a bit for this leg of the journey and took a local bus 136km from Kumily to Madurai. The four hour journey cost 40 rupees each, just over 50p! We quickly make our way down to the agricultural plains and pass through mango orchards, vineyards, sugar cane, palm oil trees & brilliantly green …
Journey to Madurai
Friday July 18th, Today was one of those days with too much driving, but we had to go from Kumily to Maduria, no small feat. On the way we stopped at mango, peanut and grape farms that was interesting, but I have mixed feelings about being led out onto these farms to talk to people who live on so little. We walk out there as affluent Americans, and …
Busy, busy, busy
It's been a while since the last blog entry, so it's hard to figure out where to start... although the logical place would be Pondicherry... After a few days chilling in Mamallapuram, we moved on to Pondicherry, a French-Indian settlement on the coast in Tamil Nadu, quaint place by the sea, where you could almost forget you were in India due to the …



