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Here’s just another entry to keep my little travbuddy map straight.  Again, just for record’s sake.  After all, I need to acknowledge the time spent and several modes of transport taken to get from my haven on Havelock island to Hampi. Here we go: -  autorickshaw to port on Havelock -  2 hours ferry ride to Port Blair where I spend the night -  morning flight to Chennai, 2 hours -  inner city train to my guesthouse where I spend one night in Chennai...

We said our farewells to comfort at Singapore airport and mentally prepared ourselves for our Indian adventure as we boarded our Tiger Airways flight to Chennai. It was almost as if things around us were trying to help out as the check in system at the airport decided to go on the blink and our check in was delayed. Somehow we still managed to get away on time despite the hundreds of tons of excess baggage the Indian visitors to Singapore were importing back to India. We saw some pretty basic...

Kaniakumari, Cochin, Mumbai, Chennai (Photos)

On the way back to Chennai George stopped at the hill where the original church was located where St. Thomas had been buried. It also offered a wonderful view over Chennai, which turned out to be much bigger than I had expected. After visiting the chapel with the 'bleeding cross' that had been found nearby, he also showed me the street in a nearby neighbourhood in which he lived. After this he dropped me off at the Rain Tree so I could get some lunch, since it was already around half past 3. ...

Travels during my summer internship in India!

Adventures in Delhi, Agra, Chennai and Kuda Hurra (Maldives)

  Benja: Day 1 After 19 hours of travelling we made it to our hotel in Chennai. We managed to scratch some breakfast together, but even with Matt's insistence they weren't prepared to serve us beer at 6am. The first day was set up as a “training session” where we could see our freshly pimped Rickshaws, learn to drive and maintain them, and have any questions answered. What it actually turned out to be was a “hang round for 4 hours in the sun getting bored” day. Only one of...

Heathrow airport had been pretty easy t manage.  Security was a 2 minute stroll through, small terminal and easy bag drop since I checked in the day before online.  No trouble.  Sauntered onto the plane to find that we had to sit on it for an hour and a half before it left, thanks to some debric on a runway or something.  Great, BA and Heathrow at its best.  Still my luggage arrived with me at Chennai airport about 11 hours later with the delay, at a local time of&nbs...

Après une bonne nuit levé a 7 heure, toujours pour profiter de la fraîcheur... nous prenons un rickshaw direction la "beach street" Madras à une des plus grande et longue plage de la cote (ce qui lui a permit d'éviter trop de dégâts avec le tsunami) malheureusement très sale, et très squattée! nous longeons la côte en direction de Georges Town ville administrative où ce trouve « Fort George », devant lequel nous nous arrêtons, il y a une queue d'enfer, tout les gens attendent...

My trip around the world in Spring 2007 with Semester at Sea included Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mauritius, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macao, China, Japan, Hawaii, and Mexico

I like Nepal, it felt a little like i was in the province in Philippines.. like going back in time.. people are nice and friendly.. i love Tamil market coz there´s loads of different shoppes and interesting things to look at and buy loads of souvenirs to bring back home or as we filipino´s call it `pasalubong´ , bars is also fun and interesting to go to...

Adventures in India from two first-time travellers - how will we get on?

So after all that intensive training, I get to India only to find out that everybody wears normal clothing. Nothing special. Just cotton, button-down shirts. Not necessarily dress shirts, but anything made of cotton with buttons will fly. I bought a few shirts and pretty much wore the same 6 shirts over and over.  Laundry was very affordable. I assumed my being brown-skinned would allow me to pass through society incognito. All over the place I see caucasian fo...

Thirty hours on a train is a long time!!! In addition to looking out the window and taking in the beautiful landscape and/or getting bored, it also gives you the time to make some new friends. There was a group of 7 Bangladeshi Buddhist monks on their way to sri lanka in the same carriage as me and this made the whole trip a lot nicer. They were telling how they were traveling from their hometown in Bangladesh all the way to Sri Lanka over land and sea and the whole trip took them like five d...

In 2000 I started to travel around the EurAzian continent. Not in one vacation ofcourse, there is work waiting for me at home, but in leg of 6 weeks. Every journey is about 3000 km long.