Sorry for the length of time since my last update - I have actually tried to write twice but power cuts foiled me both times and I couldn't be bothered to retype them. From Varkala we headed east to Chennai to catch our flight to the Andaman Islands, we had to spend a night here and, an amusing cinema trip aside, the less said the better. Basically Chennai sucks, it's got all the bad characteristics of Indian cities (crowding, air pollution, noise, rubbish, smells etc) but no redeeming factors. It's too spread out and just seemed to have a total lack of the character you find in, say, Old Delhi around the Red Fort and up Chandni Chowk. It also didn't help that the temperature was 43 with humidity too. By the afternoon we were bored
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