Temple town

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The hotel owner had been able to change my train ticket so that it started from Chengalpattu (near Madurai) rather than from Chennai, meaning that not only would I have a much shorter journey to get on the train, but it would cost less, plus my overall journey would be shorter.

My neighbour on the train was a chubby individual who insisted on encroaching aggressively, but otherwise the trip to Madurai was dull. I'd managed to book a room by phone this morning, at the Hotel Supreme, and it turned out to be a good deal, with unlimited hot water 5-10AM and 5-10PM. They also have a rooftop restaurant that has good views of the temple complex, though at night the complex is only partially lit so it's difficult to make out much about it. Probably 50% of the restaurant customers were Westerners, and probably 50% of them I'd seen on the train.

Unfortunately the food was awful - don't know if this is a southern thing but they decided to throw a ton of fruit into what should have been a bog-standard aloo mattar, rendering it sweet beyond belief.

After dinner I had a quick wander around the immediate vicinity, and received a warning butt from a bull that I walked a little too close to. Otherwise there doesn't seem much remarkable about the town.

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