This past long weekend I was lucky enough to go to Chennai with my friend Pooja and Dhanishta. Chennai (in Tamil சென்னை), formerly Madras is the capital city of the state of Tamil Nadu, it is India's fourth largest city (population 7.6 million) and is located on the Bay of Bengal.
On Wednesday we made the long journey down the mountain to Chennai, a nine hour car ride filled with chocolate laughs and loud music. on our way we passed a funeral procession which is apparently good luck, we also saw tons of cows, goats, farms, mountains, fruit stands, garbage and some of the craziest driving I have ever seen. When we arrived in Chennai the heat was overwhelming but very welcomed, it was such a nice change from the cool temperature in Kodai. We had an amazing dinner of rice, samba and fish cakes (I learned to eat like an Indian...with my fingers, I did not touch a spoon the entire weekend!). On Thursday we went to get essential oil massages which was so relaxing, we had an amazing Thai food then went to the beach and finished the day off with an amazing fish dinner overlooking the ocean. The moon was low and orangey in colour. Unfortunately I accidentally deleted all the photos off my camera.... Too bad, I had some nice shots of the moon and us at dinner.
We went to Express Avenue Mall on Friday and walked around aimlessly in the a/c and being amused by the massive toy store. Later on in the evening we saw Final Destination 5.
On Saturday we all went down to Puducherry (Pondicherry) for the day to do some sightseeing, shopping and what not. We met a friend down there. We had lunch and then spent a few hours walking around, taking photos and just soaking in Everything around me. I really enjoyed Pondicherry and I'm glad I will be going back down there again this month as well as going to Auroville (an international intentional community) with the school to do some volunteer work.
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