Chennai 17.04-21.07.2007

Chennai, a town of seven million in South India, at the Indian Ocean. Crowded, loud, polluted, is not a tourist destination, but we didn't came for tourism here. We lived here three months in the hottest time of the year when the temperatures reached almost every day 40 degrees. In middle May were even 43 degrees, which with the high humidity it feels like 55-60. Not a ideal clima to explore the souroundings. But for all the bad things the highlight were the mangos, ripe, aromatic and everywhere to buy. I counted twenty different sorts of mangos, from egg-size to half kilo weight. And every sort has a different aroma, delicious.

A shopping street in Anna Nagar, the city quarter where we lived for three months		Everything for the kitchen
The Park in Anna Nagar		The vegetable shop near our house
Chennai Central Station		A street in Georgetown on Sunday
Richsha waiting for customers		A temple in Georgetown and the shack where the chariot is kept
The High Court in Chennai and the delicious Indian mango		A street in Georgetown and thousands of mango
Sleeping in every condition		A street before the garbage truck comes
Small shop		Open air market
Another street market		The ever present cow rumagging through garbage
A marvel of Indian engineering: the tricycle carrying over 200 Kg of goods