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Yesterday we spent the day at the Ghandi Museum in Madurai.  There is a Ghandi Museum in every city in India I think, but this one was particularly good.  We spent the afternoon at the Palace and Temple with our own personal tour guide.  The guide cost us 300 rupees for 1/2 the day ($7.5  Cnd) and she had her masters of tourism management!  We were fully immersed in the Hindus culture.  THe guide insisted that Rick get the red dot on his forehead (I got a pi...

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Today I visited Sri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.  I actually have a great view of it from the roof of the hotel that I’m staying at.  It’s quite massive and the inner temple was full of pilgrims saying their prayers and receiving blessings from the brahmins.      It was beautiful, but let’s face it, I’m all templed out.  I can’t count how many temples I’ve visited in the past few weeks and I don’t want to.  I’ve gotten pretty jaded he...

Although we were all charmed by the easy life in Mammallapurum, we had to get up early to get an 8 hour train to Madurai.  This would be our first train experience, and it was interesting.  We had a lot of young locals coming up to chat, starting with a group of 18 year old university student girls, who asked all about england.  I gave them my photos to look at of family and friends and they were really interested to see the western stlye of living on them.  One girl asked...

A link to my weblog where I am recording my trip to India.

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.

Our experience of Madurai didn't extend much past three hotel rooms. We walked to our first choice hotel called TM Lodge and asked to see a room. The first was AC and stank of a strange urine, faeces and mould combo which as well as being windowless was a hole the second was non AC and had a window which overlooked what we in England would call wasteground covered with rubbish but here is known as India and was also a hole which surprisingly we found ourselves turning down. Next up was t...

March 17, 2008:   Much remains the same, but many things have changed for me in Madurai.  The big changes, the ones whose impact I feel, are the ending internships and departing of some of my new friends.  First on March 8, Yoshodora and Salma left.  On March 7th, we had a goodbye party for them.  Many people from the office cam and spoke about them, retold stories.  And because Riskhan and Jivandwa were leaving shortly, it equally was a goodbye party...

Une après-midi relax et une bonne nuit, ce matin levé de bonne heure pour profiter de la fraîcheur et direction le temple principal qui est situé au coeur de la ville, cette fois-ci j'y vais seul car Oka en a marre des temples et décide de faire du shopping a la place! Ça vous étonne? Donc je dépose mes chaussure "à la consigne" à l'entrée, passe le portique détecteur de métal!! qui ne doit pas bien marcher car même mon Laguiole ne fait rien sonner! Je pénètre la première enc...

Madurai was my favorite city to visit. Mostly because much of my family was there, but also because the traffic was a bit tamer than any other city I was in. The auto rickshaw drivers didn't drive in opposing traffic lanes just to get ahead of you. It was also kind of nice to get away from the Cosmopolitan feel that was flooding Chennai.  We stayed in a "western" hotel, which meant I could finally have an omelette for breakfast (It was a big adjustment for me eating Indian foo...

I spent my senior year of high school bunking everyday in Mumbai. It was the most amazing thing in my life and here are a couple photos that I stole from my friends.

India is the place.

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo by reliving the past of the Silk Roads from Syria to China, going upstream the mighty Mekong from Vietnam all the way to Tibet, see the roof of the world and more.....