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New challenge! (new motivation!)
Published: November 12th 2010Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Kanchipuram
November 12th 2010
Two weeks ago my friend Paul sent me an invitation to visit his blog in the Travel Blog website. I was already following his blog (I recomend it to you, specially if you are interested in Indian life!). I had a look in this website and I thought about all the possibilities it has! I thought Why don't you try to write a new blog here? It would be interesting learning how to do it! And, why don't you try to write it in English? So.... Here you are! It is my new challenge! Writing a new blog in Travel Blog in English! You know I'm not very good with computers and with English either, but... I'm not that bad! Let's try it! New objective, new motivation, new knowledge, new way to learn, I love it!! ... read more
Blog Number Three - Day tripping mayhem...
Published: November 25th 2008Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Kanchipuram
October 19th 2008
Now I am getting organised, it's the day after the last blog... before you know it I will be all caught up! (not likely!) Today is our 2nd to last day doing nothing at the beach so thought I would try and get one more place out the way. Blog Number Three - Day tripping mayhem... Kanchiparaum - Kanchi Kanchiparaum is famous for 2 things, the temples and the silk saris. We wanted to go here as it has a good mix of temples which Tamil Nadu is famous for having some of the best examples in the country, not at all interested in buying saris but sure we would probably end up in a shop haggling the price down on one before we knew it! Today was never going to go smoothly, we knew that ... read more
July 20th 2005
Kanchipuram (Kanchi) is located about 50 km south west of Chennai and is famous for two reasons, temples and silk. There are over one thousand temples in and around Kanchi, we did not see them all (three was enough)! The second reason was the main driver for our visit. We heard of an charity organisation called the Rural Institute for Development Education (RIDE) whose aim is to take children out child labour in the silk industry and put them into education instead. RIDE give the opportunity to visit their headquarters, meet their leaders and be shown around the rural villages to view the impact of their work and meet the people whose lives they have helped to improve. In 1996 there were 40,000 child labourers in Kanchi alone. The only reason that the parents allow their ... read more
