Killing time in Chennai
Trip Start
Sep 25, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 01, 2009
Chennai (Madras),
Tamil Nadu,
India
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Instead we changed into fresh clothes, deposited our rucksacks and jumped on a rickshaw into town.
It was a stinking hot day, and we didn't really want to see anything in particular, so we headed for a nice air-conditioned shopping mall where we browsed for a good few hours, and had a Pizza Hut for lunch- 4 weeks of curry had driven us to crave some greasy western food!
Flicking through our Indian guidebook for the last time over lunch we figured we were in walking distance of the beach, so in a bid to burn off some of the pizza we headed out into the blazing afternoon sun and walked towards the sea. The route took us past the cricket ground where the first test had been re-scheduled to be played just a couple of weeks later. At that stage it seemed unlikely to happen, but, perhaps a little surprisingly it did take place. And completely unsurprisingly we lost.....
We made it to the beach, which was surprisingly sandy, although being right in the middle of the city the water didn't look too appealing. We sat on the sand for a while, downed a couple of litres of ice-cold water and then started to make our way back to the airport via the shopping mall for some more familiar food-subway sandwiches for our dinner!
We passed the last few hours before our flight just sitting around at the airport, but soon enough it was time to get on the plane and leave India. We were sad, but excited, it wasn't like we were going home, we had a least five more countries ahead of us and the over half the trip left to go.
