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Meenakshi Temple, Madurai

February 15th 2015
We hired a car to take us from Mammallapuram south to Pondicherry. To say that was an adventure would be an understatement! There are no traffic signals and all vehicles are equipped with working horns. The roads were crowded with buses, three-wheeled taxis,motorcycles and bicycles all vying for position. Add the horns into this mix and you have a symphony of sorts, and somehow it all works. Now c ... read more

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Life has handed me many adventures but none quite as fulfilling as the one I am about to embark on.I have found my niche and am going back for the third time to volunteer at ABC's and Rice in Siem Reap Cambodia. ABC's and Rice is an NGO school that provides education in both English and Khmer to the poorest of the poor from the villages on the outskirts of Siem Reap. In Cambodia, children often have to go out to work or to beg in order to help support the family, so ABC's provides a kind of reverse tuition of 2 meals a day at the school and rice to take home every month so these kids can g... full info

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