Chaos, cake and cockroaches in Chennai

Well...yup. That sums up our experience in Chennai---capital of Tamil Nadu, capital of chaos.

We arrived into the station an hour and a half late....hoards of people standing on the platform ready to push on as we were trying to get off! Only our carriage of course. We escape the station to be bombarded by hoards of rickshawallas telling us RS 150 to get to the bus station (our map said it was 10 blocks and should only cost about 20)....we plowed through to find a rickshawalla willing to take us for RS 30 (30 there and 30 back to pretend to tell us the bus station wasn't where we thought it was). We yelled at him and didn't pay and for once they didn't chase after us!

So...an hour later and we're still at the station. Aurora and I go off to find out about how to get to Pondicherry and Joanne guards the bags. We return with bus routes to the bus station and blackforest cake! The Chennai highlight. Getting late so we head for a hotel (not an easy task) and spend the night in a decent, but yes, cockroach infested hotel....some of those babies are big!!!!

Anyway, we jammed with Aurora's baby guitar for a while and it was all ok.