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Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry August 9th 2012

Tamil Nadu: Famous for his Temples, devotees and poetry. 09/08 : arrival in Chennai for 2 nights. Been sick on our way into the country, we didn't manage to see Chennai - nevertheless nothing missed as this big city is not inviting because of his chaos, dust, and hot weather. 11/08 and 12/08: Pondicherry - Puducherry - Pondy: the French flavoured Tamil town. What is left by the frenchies is some colonial houses and some arts. The streets on the french side start with the typical "Rue" instead of street and names can change from the beginning to the end. There is a distinctive difference in the cleanless of the street as soon as you enter the french corner. We stayed at Villa Labourdonnais - owned by a french man Gerard Louis who lives in india ... read more
Pondy street
the man and the cow
church st xavier

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry July 29th 2012

Au moment ou j'ecris ces lignes, j'ai deja quitte Pondicherry depuis le 25 juillet mais bon, je suis en retard dans les nouvelles alors voila, je vous raconte encore des tas de trucs ;) Je songeais serieusement a m'installer dans cette ville pour une bonne duree. Des amis avec qui j'avais joue au Karam plus tot dans la semaine m'informaient que l'appartement juste au-dessus du leur et duquel ils etaient proprietaire, un petit studio situe sur le bord de l'ocean allait se liberer le mois prochain. Le prix etait ridiculement bas pour un occidental, soit 1100 roupies par mois, c'est a dire 22$. J'aurais pu payer l'appart pour un an et avoir encore une bonne reserve d'argent pour mes depenses. De plus, comme la ville abrite et recoit la visite de nombreux francais, on m'assurait qu'il ... read more
Bus de police
Klaxon pouet
Peinture

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry July 28th 2012

Un matin, alors que je suis encore a Pondicherry, je decide d'explorer le cote Nord, du cote des villages de pecheurs. On me dit qu'il y a par la des plages beaucoup mieux que celle ou je me suis baigne deux jours plus tot. Des plages sans dechets et ou d'autres occidentaux se baignent aussi. Alors je pars a pied et j'explore. Bon, je tombe sur une premiere petite plage pleine de bateaux de pecheurs, je me dit que je ne veux pas etre l'attraction principale, moi qui est non seulement le seul blanc mais le seul qui me tremperais dans l'eau, alors je continue mon chemin en cherchant un endroit plus discret, plus intime. Je marche et marche et marche et ne voit que des bateaux de pecheurs l'un apres l'autre a chaque plages que ... read more
ballade sur la plage
Bateaux de pecheurs
Depart pour la mer

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry July 22nd 2012

Alors que je suis entoure de gens qui n'ont rien mais qui sont ben, moi qui a tout, je suis malheureux comme un pou. C'etait mon humeur du moment et plutot que de me brancher sur la gratitude en voyant la pauvrete qui m'entoure et les gens qui sont heureux malgre tout, je me juge trois fois plus pour etre malheureux malgre tout. Quand je dis "je me juge", on s'entend, c'est plutot "l'ego me juge". L'ego panique, capote, rue dans les brancards et me ressers de vieux disques du genre "je ne vaux rien" "qu'est-ce que je fais ici" "j'ai tout essaye et j'arrive pas a etre heureux" "C'est quoi ma voie, bordel de merde!! Qu'est-ce que je peux faire qui me branche et me passionne???" "Plus rien ne me fais rien..." etc. etc., je ... read more
camera?
Juste comme ca...
Riviere de dechets

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry July 20th 2012

Voici un bel exemple d'ironnie. Je dans le train entre Vizianagaram et Pondicherry. J'ai la couchette du haut, mon sac a dos est donc logiquement sur le sol, sous la couchette du bas. Pour une raison X, il n'y a aucun anneau auquel je peux attacher une chaine, mon sac-a-dos et un cadenas. Alors que je descends de ma couchette, je pense que si je me fais voler mon sac-a-dos, la chose la plus importante a l'interieur ce sont mes anti-depresseurs. Je les mets donc dans ma poche de pantalon avant d'aller aux toilettes, pensant les mettre dans mon petit sac, sur ma couchette, au retour. Je fais ce que je dois au toilette, remonte mes pantalons et sacre alors que je vois mes medicaments tomber dans le trou qui mene directe sur la track du ... read more
Ocean's view
Vu du Ayodhia Bhavan Guest House
Toujours le toit du Guest House

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry March 1st 2012

India must have more adverts per square mile than any other country in the world, certainly more than any country I have visited anyway. Indian towns are filled to the brim (and often well over the brim) with a sensory overloading array of billboards, posters and signs, you will often even find advertising painted on the side of peoples homes. Every centimetre of space seems to have been claimed by advertising, nothing but nothing is sacred. One of the things that has most surprised me is the amount of advertising that is dedicated to cement. Cement is perhaps the most heavily marketed product in India, I would even hazard a guess that there are more adverts for cement than there are for mobile phones, Bollywood films and soft drinks combined. There are countless cement brands and ... read more
Seafront at Pondicherry
The protein shop!
Mamallapuram beach

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry October 29th 2011

So, firstly I need to make an apology to the people of India. As soon as i stepped out of the internet place in Varanasi we saw women sat next to a body crying their eyes out. It appears that to cry at the ghat is bad Karma and this is why the women are not present at the burning. Since leaving Varanasi we got a 28 hour train to Hyderabad. The journey wasnt too bad, we were the only white people there again but it left and arrived pretty much on time so we couldnt complain! The next day we walked around the park and visited the free health museum as we couldnt really be bothered with too much sightseeing that day. Im glad we didnt have to pay to get in as looking at ... read more

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry January 30th 2011

Upon leaving the orphanage I was immediately thrown back into the chaos. I made my train by the skin of my teeth, another thirty seconds and I would have missed it. It was a cliched movie like moment where I had to run with all my baggage and jump on the last car as it pulled away. Unfortunately my car was at the opposite end, so that at the next stop i had to jump off and run the two hundred meters as fast as I could to where my car was located. Sweaty, exhausted, overwhelmed, I began my marathon 18 hour train ride to Chennai. The sleeper car was filled to capacity, but I lucked out in that the people I sat next to were very friendly and spoke English. Throughout the day there was ... read more
friends in Tiruninravur
peaceful street in Pondy
park in Pondy

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry January 4th 2011

Happy New year. We are now in French colonial Pondicherry where the boulevards are quiet and baguettes and croissants plentiful. We had a nice new year on the beach, ate some massive fresh prawns, drank some very strong cocktails in a bar then at midnight went down on the sand along with seemingly everyone from Mamallapuram to watch the fireworks and wish everyone you met a Happy New Year. We've had it easy since then, taking the speedy two hour bus down to Pondicherry, we're staying in the old French part of the town in a French run guest house where we've wangled the top floor room with a thin tin roof and private terrace where we can hide from the sun and watch the rainstorms come rolling in. The town itself is like a nugget ... read more
Route so far
Pretty chalk doorstep drawing
Quiet boulevards

Asia » India » Tamil Nadu » Pondicherry October 16th 2010

Torej! Usla sem misteriozni avri Aurovilla z busom za 5r do Pondicherryja oz. Pondija za frende, tam pa sem bila takoj spet v sedlu: z riksa driverji sem se brezkompromisno zdilala za 60 rupij, toliko kot je rekel Rob, da me zategnejo do njega v predel Colas Nagar. I still got it! NAsla sem iz prve. Rob me je velikodusno sprejel, ceprav je bil ravno sredi cistilnega dela svojega dne - je namrec scuba diving instruktor (sicer iz Sydneya) in ima edini potapljaski center na tej strani indijske obale. Na hitro mi je razkazal mojo novo rezidenco, velikansko hiso s kar prevec izbire za prostor spanja, predstavil svoje sostanovalce (Kuta cowboy srferska scena, India style) in se opravicil, da more hitro oditi, ker pridejo stirje interesenti za Padi tecaj cez par minut. "Prides poslusat?" me je ... read more
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