Blogs from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia
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Published: February 26th 2012Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Madurai
February 21st 2012
Weetje : dansen is zeer belangrijk voor Indiërs. Naar verluid even belangrijk als seks! De klassieke Tamil dans telt 108 heilige posities. Standjes, zeg maar (...of was ik toch in het verkeerde boek aan 't lezen?). Neen hoor, ze staan allemaal afgebeeld op de oostelijke gopuram van het Nataraja Tempel (Chidambaram) Maandag 20/02/2012 - Van Trichy naar Madurai De Chaos in Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) is nog een graad erger dan wat we tot hiertoe al hebben ervaren. Maar ook chaos went. Wat niet went is het onophoudelijk getoeter van wat maar rijdt! In alle toonaarden. Te pas en te onpas. De Sri Rangatanathaswamy tempel, gewijd aan Vishnu, gaat door als de grootste in India. In feite lijkt het meer op een ingesloten stad dan op een gebedsplaats. Om b... read more
February 21st 2012
I would like to start today’s entry with a little gloating, never a good way to start I know. I’m sorry to start off in such a rude manner but I’m afraid it really must be done. I would like to let all of you in cold, wet and windy Britain know that to this date it has only rained once since I arrived in India and I don’t believe we have had a single cloudy day. Yes your right, I am a smug ****. The one time it did actually it did so at night so we didn’t even get wet, no surprises for guessing where it rained, my favourite Indian town ever (not), Cochin. Would be wouldn’t it. Anyway it’s pretty damn amazing that in over a month I haven’t seen a drop of ... read more
February 20th 2012
We zijn inmiddels in Madurai beland. We zijn maar 4 dagen in India, en worden overspoeld door indrukken : - een gids die Stalin heet, en een chauffeur Nelson... - Engels leren herkennen dat helemaal niet op Engels lijkt... - tempels in alle vormen en maten... - je blote voeten verbranden op de oververhitte plavuizen van de tempels... - de chaostheorie aan de lijve ondervinden... - ... en de mensenzee! Zaterdag 18/02/2012 - Van Pondy naar Tanjur In Puducherry, beter bekend als 'Pondy' zijn er meer katholieke kerken dan tempels of moskeeën. Een van de belangrijkste bezienswaardigheden is de Sri Aurobindo Ashram, mede gesticht door een Franse dame, die bekend werd als 'The Mother'. In India zijn alle meditatieve groeperingen erg in trek. Waar je ook maar in gelooft of wilt in geloven, je v... read more
February 1st 2012
By Polona Arrival After blast of from Colombo airport we have hardly been mid air for half an hour, when the pilot announced that we should prepare for landing (hence also a really sad and small lunch we got on the aeroplane: pack of nuts and a small pack of apple juice, not impressed, not at all Sorry Umar, no new photos for you.).So an hour later we touched ground in India, more exactly at the Tiruchirapali airport. We were standing in line, to have our passports checked, when we noticed 2 rooms with glass doors and 2 beds in them: they were his and hers Entry refusal room. It kinda sends shivers down your spine when you are still waiting in line and we started thinking, how horrible it would be, if we got locked ... read more
July 4th 2011
Well, My first week has come to an end in the wonderful country of India. I am currently in Virudhunagar, 40 minutes south of Madurai on a medical placement in Lysander Hospital. In the first week here I was discovered a lot about myself and where I see myself in a few years. I left Perth on the 27th June, where the flight was delayed. I arrived in Singapore and was delayed and after arriving in Chennai, you guessed it, I was delayed. I finally reached Madurai 20 hours after I left Perth. What an awesome start. The first thing you notice about Madurai is how modern the airport is while after only driving maybe a kilometre from the airport the poverty begins. You pass the famous engineering college where everybody is smilling on their way ... read more
May 29th 2011
Madurai was the beginning of my mad temple run. I had taken longer than I had anticipated to get down the bottom of India and that left me with not much time to do what I had wanted to do. So after watching a spell binding sunrise in Kanyakumari, I found myself on a series of buses, that somehow ended up where I wanted to be. Not before I had spent half the day slow cooking and being tenderised however. Through the good grace of a domestic tourist who had made the pilgrimage to Kanyakumari and was heading back home, I managed to navigate myself via a bewildering strike induced route to Madurai. Once in Madurai I found an all you can eat Thali for something like 30 cents. I spent 2 hours there trying I ... read more
May 1st 2011
Her er et par billeder fra de foerste par dage. En forholdvis vellykket nats soevn har udrettet mirakler og vi er paa trods af de 35 grader+ i anstaendig form. Min antagelse er at jeg har galoperende kulturchok, saa tager det stille og roligt med at traekke de store linier op. Der er mange fattige mennesker og vi har diskuteret hvordan vi skal haandtere dem. Jeg har mest af alt vaeret stemt for at ignorere dem, men Chris kom med en god pointe omkring menneskelig anerkendelse ogsaa er vigtig. Saa proever fremover at kigge dem i oejnene og smile, inden jeg ignorerer dem. Det er sagt i alvor, da de mennesker vi moeder der hvor vi er kan vaere ekstremt insisterende og gerne griber fat i en hvis de faar en mulighed. Jeg er glad for ... read more
April 30th 2011
Hej venner Saa er vi ankommet til Madurai. Vi skulle have vaeret her smaa 24 timer tidligere, men saadan skulle det ikke vaere. De sidste to doegn har jeg oplevet det som de fleste jeg har talt med priser og elsker at hade Indien for. Vel ankommet til Mumbai internationale lufthavn efter 16 timers rejse moedte vi en mand ved navn Pradu i transferbussen til indenrigsterminalen. En helt utrolig venlig SAP programmoer fra Nokia Danmark der bor ved soerne. Vi sludrede og han hang ud med os mens vi ventede paa at vores afgang til Madurai skulle komme paa tavlen. Det gjorde den saa bare ikke... Efter et ihaerdigt detektiv arbejde finder vi ud af at stoerstedelen af Air Indiens indenrigsflyvende piloter strejker paa 3. dagen uden udsigt til aendringer. Pis. Det var sjovt nok tophistorien ... read more
April 1st 2011
We had a leisurely morning of food and checking out then were on the 5hr midday govt bus to Madurai. It was amazing how quickly we dropped out of the mountains and this had a direct correlation to the increase in temperature. Soon we were racing along the plains of Tamil Nadu in our solar heated oven on wheels, passing tropical crops of banana and coconut. The landscape was littered with large brick kilns/drying houses – large pyramid structures covered with palm fronds where hand made bricks were stored to dry. At one point a pyramid shaped mountain (due to aggregate mining I think) stood alone on the plains with the ‘mini-me’s’ in the foreground and it felt like some alien/ lost civilisation landscape. Madurai, one of south India’s oldest cities, was a dirty, dirty hole. ... read more
simen reiser gjennom kanaler, skog og fjell
Published: February 17th 2011Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » MaduraiFebruary 16th 2011
nå har vi turet rundt i husbåt i keralas indre kanaler (det ble til slutt snorre, simen og ingen israelere): - livet var slapt på dekk med servering av kokosmelk (i kokosnøtt) og (indisk fin-) whisky. bøkene måtte pent bli i sekken da utsikt mot elvebredder og landsbyer var mer enn nok for både øyne og hode. damer vasket klær i elvevann og menn satt på huk og stirret ut i luften. i blant kjørte en kano forbi, og enda oftere passerte vi andre husbåter med andre turister. - vi hadde egen kokk som gjorde supergod lunsj i en hel serie av kasseroller. en med fisk, en annen med ris, en med blomkål og en med okra. pluss et par til, og brød i tillegg. så gikk det et par timer, og vi fikk kaffe og ... read more
