Girl in temple

Week 3 - Chennai (Madras) - Kanchipuram - Pondicherry

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October 22nd 2008
After two lazy, air conditioned weeks in Bangalore, we left for Chennai (Madras) on the early morning train. Chennai is much hotter, humid and polluted but our room was cheap (less than the price of a single cocktail in Bangalore). Spent the day looking around the town and saw a few nice sights, had some great food. The whole beach front was taken up by a political rally for the next head of ... 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