[HCRA] India Continues

[Daniel Sullivan]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ko1d/sets/72157594297425598/

 

Well here is Day 3 in India. We did not mess around and left from Ernakulam,
Kerala for the 10+ hour trek back over the mountains to Madurai in Tamil
Nadu. Our Eventual goal would be the small village of Rangiem in Southern
Tamil Nadu another couple hours from Madurai. There were some astounding
sights, and some rather hair raising experiences, zipping through the
mountains at night. We got lost once, just in case our kidneys had missed
any of the potholes the first time we got to explore them again; we awoke to
what is one of the most amazing sunrises I have ever seen, and we arrived at
a bustling city mid-morning for a break. Here I decided to take some time to
rest and jet lag was seriously starting to hit home and I hadn't slept much
in the minivan. That explains why there are so few pictures in this batch.
Well that and most of the pictures I have were shot from a moving vehicle so
a lot of the pictures were blurred. 

 

http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/tamilnadu/tamilnaduroads.htm The map du
jour. If you look at the map, on the right side near the coast you will see
Pudukkottai northeast of Madurai. The village of Rangiem where we ended the
day is around there. We would have started the day along Hwy 49 I guess or
some of the back roads around there to get from Ernakulam to Madurai.

 

Some pictures are tilted because, well, the moving vehicle was tilted. Some
are noisy but that seems to be a quirk of the Canon S3IS. It gets some noise
at the higher ISO settings (400 and 800) and apparently a lot of digital
cameras have this issue (unless you want to spend more than 1000USD for high
end stuff.) The next set will be the village, some scenes around the village
and the much awaited start of the wedding preparations!

 

Dan S