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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 21, 2013 8:01:18 GMT
I was in Chennai for 2 nights- I know, less time, but I did manage to see some things. Chennai is home to quite some colonial architecture like the Chennai Central Railway Station. Other pieces of colonial architecture: One of the important monuments is the Fort St George near Marina Beach, near the historic neighbourhood of Georgetown. In the complex is the St Mary's Church. Also in the complex is the Fort Museum, entrance fee INR 5 (five, don't worry, I didn't make a typo; I didn't mean 50). It's interesting with displays from the colonial period and before, including crockery, clothes, coins (from the 12th century as well), a whole scale model of the Fort, statues of Lord Cornwallis and George V and more. Good for a wander but no a/c! Chennai has a better civic sense than other cities, many areas are pretty clean and roads are generally better.
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Post by bjd on Jan 21, 2013 8:51:16 GMT
Hi Ansh, what language are the overhead signs in?
Nice to see your photos but could you also post some that are more "Indian", ie, not colonial architecture and churches but more locally inspired?
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Post by onlymark on Jan 21, 2013 9:42:16 GMT
Hindi? Tamil?
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 21, 2013 11:30:34 GMT
Hi, they're in the regional language, Tamil. Few signs are in Hindi. In Bangalore, for instance, there are only a handful of Hindi signs.
Bjd, let me see if I have some such photos.
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 21, 2013 11:36:53 GMT
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 21, 2013 11:43:56 GMT
Chennai has still some colonial street names as well as new, Tamil, ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 13:58:05 GMT
I remember the Chennai railway station very well, because I took the train from the airport to the city. I seem to recall that the fare was something like 3 rupees back then!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 16:35:36 GMT
Thanks for the photos, ansh. The weather looks so bright an sunny. What month would this have been? So many motorbikes in use. I hope I get to see the Fort Museum, are there any others that you could recommend or know of? What are the outlaying areas like? The same or quite different?
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 22, 2013 1:09:52 GMT
THis was January, I posted this resort the day I came back (yesterday). I don't have much travel experience in Chennai, but the Government Museum seems to be famous, never been there though.
Outlying areas? Sorry, no idea. Same are similar- and much of Chennai looks clean, some areas are posher (Nungambakkam; and Khader Nawaz Khan Rd).
Most tourists visit Mahabalipuram, a seaside town good for temples around 1.5 hr south of Chennai. Been there, but has been a while.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 13:18:25 GMT
Thanks for the infomation, ansh.
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Post by anshjain97 on Jan 22, 2013 13:32:38 GMT
Chennai govt museum: www.chennaimuseum.org/In #8, "resort" should be "report" and "same" should be "some", of course. Sorry for the typos.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 13:51:16 GMT
Not to worry about them, ansh. I make them all the time. Sometimes I go back an correct them, sometimes I don't.
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Post by spindrift1 on Apr 27, 2013 8:08:51 GMT
Ansh....nice pics of Chennai which I didn't get to see at all although my flight landed there. We drove straight off to Mamallapuram. Whilst planning our trip we did consider staying in Chennai but then decided to base ourselves in Mamall and do a side trip to Kanchipuram instead. If only it hadn't been so hot when we were there 4 weeks ago. Must be hotter now!
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Post by anshjain97 on Apr 27, 2013 11:09:11 GMT
Hi, thanks- it will definitely be hotter now. Chennai has such horrible weather- even the winters feel hot because of the humidity.
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Post by anshjain97 on Apr 2, 2015 13:15:36 GMT
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Post by anshjain97 on Apr 3, 2015 9:22:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 20:58:50 GMT
Oh, that last set of 10 photos is wonderful. But... Krishna's Butter Ball?
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Post by anshjain97 on Apr 4, 2015 3:23:15 GMT
Haha Kerouac. Just copied the mythology from a website:
In Hindu mythology Lord Krishna had an insatiable appetite for butter, and as a child, would often sneak a handful from his mother’s butter jar. Situated on a hill slope near the Ganesh Ratha this massive natural rock boulder is attributed to a bolus of butter the young Krishna would steal.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 20:48:55 GMT
Thanks for the explanation!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2015 1:44:30 GMT
Huge apologies for spacing out this report the first time around, Ansh, & coming so late to it now. It's extremely interesting in how little it's how I would have imagined it. Really, if you'd blurred out the signs in the pics before the temple ones, I wonder how many people could have even come close to guessing the location.
Ansh, you are lucky in how much travel your family does. It seems as though even when you accompany your dad on a work trip, you manage to get in some sight-seeing. AND it's obvious you're always paying attention!
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