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Travel stories from Chennai

Collection of 19 travel stories from Chennai, India. Written by your friends on the road.

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Chennai
2009-01-09, Chennai, India. By: yogibeari

Chennai formerly known as Madras is the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It is the fourth largest metro city in India. Chennai has retained its traditional Tamil Hindu culture and effectively blended it wi...

 
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Chennai and Bangalore - India
2008-09-05, Chennai, India. By: juchem

Good news everyone, I’m still alive in India! The first day was hard, the second as well, maybe in the third I’ll get used with this traffic, people, clean places just looking, etc! Maybe I’ll like it...

 
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Flt to Chennai
2008-04-17, Chennai, India. By: oolong

Flt to Chennai. All the trains were full so Sasha and I couldn't book a flt up north to escape the heat (he was also keeping quite busy with his endless dental work). Darjeeling would have been gran...

 
Traveler gabby2460

India, Chennai
2007-11-20, Chennai, India. By: gabby2460

November 1, 2007. 2:00 PM Check-in gate is now open bound to Singapore. My body is tingling my hand is sweaty...queuing waiting for my turn in immigration. The man standing beside me is Mike my signif...

 
Traveler tjtunes

TJ; One Last Night in Chennai
2000-01-27, Chennai, India. By: tjtunes

It was soon time to move on, I had bought a plane ticket to Kochin - on the West coast of India. Kim didn’t want to spend the money and so she had bought a train ticket and I would meet up with her t...

 
Traveler tjtunes

TJ; Recovering
2000-01-26, Chennai, India. By: tjtunes

The ship pulled into Chennai at 6am and I got ready to disembark the vessel. The sleeping had vastly helped and I hadn’t died from yesterday’s injection so I was feeling more positive. The rush to g...

 
Traveler Orion777

Madras, Chennai...
1999-07-12, Chennai, India. By: Orion777

As for Coimbatore, my memory is like a succession of snapshots. The big fans creaking at the airport, the vast dry countryside seen from the plane. The wall of faces and bodies when I came out of the ...

 
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TJ: The Nipple Tweaker
1999-12-20, Chennai, India. By: tjtunes

(28/12/99) Today we were to set sail to the Andaman Islands and journeying to a far off land made my stomach turn summersaults with anticipation and excitement, and I wondered if I would find the par...

 
Traveler 16Aussie

Headed to Thailand!
2007-02-23, Chennai, India. By: 16Aussie

Hello Friends and Family! Well, we made it back to Chennai! it was about 27 hours in total, and to be honest it was quite nice, I think we finally got used to the trains. We got back to Chennai...

 
Traveler 16Aussie

one story
2007-01-05, Chennai, India. By: 16Aussie

Here is a story of one of the women at the HIV/AIDS hospice I am working at. This lady named Jody she was married and her husband was an older man who lived in Madras, a city that is near by. They t...

 
Traveler 16Aussie

Happy New Year!
2006-12-31, Chennai, India. By: 16Aussie

Just wanted to say thank you to all of you, and wish you a Happy New Year! My team and I are going to a church serivce here in India for the whole night, well until about 12:30am. Love you all! ...

 
Traveler 16Aussie

I made it!
2006-12-29, Chennai, India. By: 16Aussie

Hey Friends and Famiy! Here I am, in Chennai, India. I made it. We left the 26th of Dec, had a layover in Singapore for 24hours! And then a quick 3 hour trip to Chennai! The Singapore airpor...

 
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Food etc
2001-07-01, Chennai, India. By: katyliz

ah Indian food - the real thing, not the westernized versions - is a wonderful thing. some of my favorites... There are the wonderful breads, naan of course, but also Parantha, and Chapati. Mai...

 
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Rickshaw drivers
2001-06-15, Chennai, India. By: katyliz

Rickshaw's (Indian Taxi's) are always an interesting experience. There are two types - the old style where the driver bicycles in front, and the new style which is like a motorcycle with a 3-seater i...

 
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Start of 2001 India Trip
2001-06-01, Chennai, India. By: katyliz

Before I started my first job out of college I took off for a month and traveled around India with my friend Katelyn. We started in the southern city of Chennai, then took a train ride up north to vi...

 
Traveler kplumb

crazy 'ol india
2005-10-23, Chennai, India. By: kplumb

sooo, India……….umm, yeah. overall it was an interesting, rejuvenating, exhausting, and rewarding experience. I spent the first three days at a retreat of sorts learning a practice called the Art of ...

 
Traveler megancknox

India 1, Megan 0
2005-03-04, Chennai, India. By: megancknox

My first day in India was very eventful and overwhelming. Before the ship was cleared for disembarkation, we had our first actual diplomatic briefing. A very nice looking man from the US Consulate spo...

 
Traveler nsuffield

Man can not live on crisps alone
2001-11-05, Chennai, India. By: nsuffield

Caught out 2 tier air-conditioned coach and waved ... not very tearfully ... to Chennai. The AC was a bit of a waste considering that it was freezing outside, but we did get sheets and a pillow eh! An...

 
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Chennai in the rain
2001-11-04, Chennai, India. By: nsuffield

I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like large Indian cities and Chennai was to be no exception ... and it was raining. Out of cash, I had to go half way across town to an cash machine leavi...

 


 
 

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