On the bus to Mamallapuram

Chennai

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September 9th 2008
We arrived in Chennai, India around lunch time on the 6th September. So noisy, so chaotic. We got a rickshaw from the airport to our hotel called Paradise, which wasn't really our idea of paradise, although the price was pretty heavenly. We decided to have a look around the city and walked towards where the hotel staff had told us the tourist office was. We didn't make it very far before we were s ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more