Our grand tour

We leave lovely Pondicherry (=Puducherry) today… to go to Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram), a small town just 95 km north. Our hostel is right at the fishermen’s beach… By the way, many Indian places seem to have two names…

No one should ever miss an Indian market. The colours, smells and the people… It’s almost too much to compensate… In the evening we met friends from Munnar at an temple and went for dinner. Life’s just full of wonderful…

Goodbye Munnar with your tea plantations, your hills and mountains, your fresh air, spices and chocolate, goodbye all you beautiful people we met. We will miss you! But it’s time to move on…. A night stop over in Madurai, our…

Day We bumped into a cultural show at the promenade on our first evening. What a nice welcome! And we could say hello to Gandhi But the best thing about this promenade is the people. India is a fantastic place…

Ben’s mountain got it’s name from an Irish man who stayed at the hostel and through whom we ended up here. Apparently he climbed it every day…. We four tried it one day but got stopped by a group of…

Ja, der kommt sogar nach Indien und füllt auch Barfußschuhe.. 🎅

I love this area. It’s so calming. Not too hot, plenty of nature and lovely people. Today we decided to go for a walk – without a guide but with some people from the hostel… Trespassed a few times but…

What’s behind the doors? If you guess correctly you might get a postcard 👍

Mit dem Tuktuk sightseeing… 1. Spice tour – oder besser gesagt zur Verkaufsshow… Highlight: eine hochgiftige Schlange, die kurze Zeit für viel Aufregung sorgt… Nur die Leonards bleiben natürlich voll cool 😎 2. Ein Damm, dessen Namen ich nicht weiß.…

We couldn’t leave this place fast enough so we were at the bus station half an hour for departure… To our surprise we saw the bus to Munnar leaving the moment we arrived. “Oh, exception today. Bus is leaving seven…