http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , Tamil Nadu , Tiruchirappalli en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 07:48:36 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 07:48:36 +0000 This blog covers the time approximately Sep 11 15.So in the last blog I left off in the train from Mumbai to Chennai. I think I mentioned most of it already but one thing I forgot to mention is some of the beggars. I donrsquot know if it was because I travelled sleeper class the cheapest class where you still get somewhere to lie down because on the other train rides later I never saw http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-441967.html This morning we caught a local bus and headed up to a fort and temple. There is much amusement on buses when Vin insists that he stands for a lady or a child. This just doesn't happen in India. At the temple we met an Indian couple who had emigrated to Canada in 1969 and had recently retired and were touring India. The man described India as ' a noisy stinking wonderful place' and said that he no http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-376942.html Moved on to Trichy for 2 nights. Couple things to do here besides eat. No seriously have had just amazing food here Anyways the Rock Temple stands alone in the center of the city some 83 m above. Cool views and it even has an elephant at the gate to take rupee coins from you as a blessingWent on to Temple Town Srirangan. Dedicated to Vishnu the first gateway or gopuram into the city is 7 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-368285.html Nach ca. 4 Stunden kam ich voller Vorfreude in der Tempelhochburg Trichy an. Die Stadt ist zweigeteilt irgendwie. Die Hotels liegen direkt am Busbahnhof und die Tempel sind ca 2 km weiter noerdlich. Somit habe ich mich schon mal auf ein wenig Laerm eingestellt.Meine Ueberlegung war dass wenn ich schon am Bahnhof naechtigen muss sollte es zumindest einigermassen gemuetlich sein und ich wollte ge http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-326628.html After an extremely fitfull afternoon and evening of sleep I awoke early at 6am and started a routine with the hopes of improving my stay here in India. While there have been enjoyable outings and warm company I have been decidedly illatease since falling sick and must make a conscious decision from here on in to do everything in my power to be happy and have a good time. I think that if I am a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-197876.html We took a train form Chennai to Tiruchirappalli Trichy a journey I had been greatly looking forward to tired of the hustle bustle and dust of Chennai. I see the train as the quintessential mode of Indian transportation even though we booked our tickets in the AC chair car. I was still feeling rather unwell having not eaten in 2 days aside for a packet of cream crackers courtesy of Mona C http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-197373.html After Kodai went to Trichy as a rest stop on the way to Pondicherry.Temples as always one of which I had to climb up to the top of and a beautiful temple elephant. It's a more relaxing place than Madurai but the temples weren't as magical and most as a nonhindu I couldn't go inside. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-126896.html Our express tour of Tamil Nadu continued with our next overnighter in Tiruchirappalli or to avoid that mouthful Trichy as it's better known. We boarded the 3hour long Pallavan express train at Villupuram Junction to make the 150km or so journey south without reserved seats and ended up spending the majority of the journey in standing room only. The train was packed with Pongal festival pilgrim http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-122792.html On continue la visite des temples Dravidiens a Trichy avec le temple Sri Ranganathaswami qui aurait ete construit au 10e siecle puis comme pour les autres temples chaque dynastie qui a succede a apporte sa contribution a la construction.Le dernier des gopuram tour de 76m de haut a ete acheve en 1987. A 3 km nous avons grimpe les 400 marches du Rock Fort temple d'ou nous avons pu aprecier http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-118985.html Everyone goes to temple. They are everywhere small roadside temples little more than freestanding huts in the dirt encasing headsized deities on top of platforms housesized temples every couple of blocks in cities towns and villages their extravagant faces decorated with rainbow painted deities winding along the top shrouding the gods within and extravagant temples with multiple intri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-48452.html Due to the fact that this weekend was an ideal one for weddings many hotels were fully booked. But in the end we got a room in the oldest hotel in town set around a nice courtyard with shrubs flowers and banana trees. Very nice indeedThe first sight we went to see was the temple town Srinangam just north of Trichy easy to reach by local bus. It was boiling hot and for the first time Klaudia http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Tiruchirappalli/blog-4600.html