Monday, January 4, 2010
South India
We are now starting our South India tour. Today we went to Kanchipuram to see the temples and to see some silk-making in action. After that I stopped and went to the hotel and Cameron went to see Fort St. George which first established the British in India (capital was first Madras (Chennai) then Calcutta (Kolkata) then Delhi). Tomorrow we go to Mamallapuram. South Asian temples are bigger and taller and the figures are 3D instead of 2D. Here are some pics from today's sojourn.
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Our India
Cameron, Chris and Heather will travel to Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, during the 3 days before Alex arrives. We meet Alex and then set out from Delhi in the north. We travel mainly in Rajasthan, in what is called the Golden Triangle. We will visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, Jodhpur, Jaipur, often called the Pink City, Udaipur with a Palace that sits in the middle of a lake, and Pushkar, which every year has a big camel fair. Then Alex and Chris return home to university. Heather and Cameron continue and tour through parts of the south, starting in Chennai and Madurai, both in Tamil Nadu. We drive through the Western Ghats arriving in Cochin and the backwaters of Kerala. Mumbai ends our trip and home to Canada.
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