Blogs from Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia - page 10

Nieco mi hovori ze tento blog pritiahne viac muzskej pozornosti ako ine :-) Vcera vecer sa tu v meste Mamallapuram zacal festival klasickeho Indickeho tanca - videli sme prve vystupenie a neviem aky superlativ pouzit na jeho opisanie. Nieco take som v zivote nevidela - bolo to fakt uzasne. Tance mali prepracovane do posledneho pohybu oci, usmevu a gesta ruk. Na rozdiel od inych tanecnych vystupeni co som doteraz videla - toto by som dokazala sledovat dlhe hodiny bez zaspavania..... Na vystupenie prislo velke mnozstvo divakov z celej Indie, tak som rada ze mam aspon par fotiek "zblizka". Tento festival tu bude este 20 dni, takze pride este viac turistov. Toto mesto pri mori je chranene statom koli starodavnym kamennym ritinam a takisto slavnym chramom vytesanym zo skaly. Vela ludi sa tu zivi obrabanim kamena, lebo ... read more

I’d booked the 8.00am (for a lie-in) train to Chennai not knowing that it would stop at every local station along the way and we didn’t arrive until 4pm in the afternoon, too late to catch the bus to Mamallapuram, so joy of joys we hired a white Ambassador cab, such luxury. All three of us squeezed in the back and we were chauffeured through the beeping traffic of Chennai and onto the coastal toll road to Mamallapuram aka Mahabalipuran or as we pronounced it Mummamallipurammmmum… - a coastal village that promised great seafood and a chance to chill in the surrounds of ancient carvings and temples. We had been trying to call ahead to book accommodation, but the codes had all changed, I assume a result of the tsunami, so we settled ourselves down for ... read more

Hi friends and family. I am nearing the end of a fantastic journey through India. I have been from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains to the southern tip of India and a lovely fishing village called Kochi. I have been from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. I have met alot of people from all over the world, eaten interesting foods I've never eaten and in ways I am not accostumed to. I have seen temple after temple after ancient temple, as well as mosques churches and even the grand daddy, the Taj Mahal. I have learned to know Kripa better through experiencing her country of birth, the country that raised her. I have learned to know myself better through trials with different people and situations and through the mere experience of being ... read more

Arriving in India will always be an interesting experience for me. The country has its own peculiarities which you notice straight away, from the heat and the smell, to the mass of people outside the airport and people-filled rickshaws. And this time was no different! Phil and I got here very early in the morning on Thursday, after our Thai Airways from Dubai to Chennai was delayed for several long hours. Immigration processed us very quickly, thanks to a "Foreigners only" desk, and us apparently being the only non-Indians on the flight. Then the wait for our luggage started. At first the quantity of boxes on the conveyor belt seemed a bit strange. Were they not accidentally unloading a cargo plane?! Soon it became clear though that several people on board had travelled with hundreds of ... read more

A 4:30AM rise to welcome me back to the Indian Rail network. Loy kindly got up in order to accompany me to my taxi, a favour I returned by accidentally locking him out of his apartment. It seemed as though the driver had slept in his cab overnight outside the building. There was another seat mix-up on the train, which I can only put down to bad luck - not sure how I got through 2.5 months with no trouble, but now I don't seem to be able to ever sit in the right place. My ticket said it was carriage C2. Normally there is a little sign on the carriage bearing the carriage number, and there's also a reservations list on the door so that you can confirm it's the right one - both were ... read more