200 km south of Pondy lies Tranquebar, a former Danish colony. As I am travelling with two Danish people it was a natural destination for us. Nothing however could have prepared us for what we saw there. 40,000 people in Tamil Nadu alone we killed in the Tsunami and it was the worst affected state in India, Tranquebar was one of the villages hit, it is very close to the sea and the land lies very low. As we stepped off the bus there was something not quite right about this place, a disturbing air set upon us. As we did not have a map we set off to find the Danish fort that we came to see, we started down a road where there were many Tsunami rehabilitation huts but there seemed to be no
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