I arrived in Chennai yesterday from lovely Sri Lanka for my long stint of lone traveling around the world. Chennai is just as crazy as Mumbai. I guess most of the large Indian cities are similar – roads packed with vehicles honking horns, people everywhere; crammed into backstreets, sleeping under sheets or just on the side of the road. Unlike Mumbai, Chennai didn’t appear to have much by the way of pavements, so I spent most of my time walking through the filth & dodging tuk-tuks, motorbikes and buses in the road.

I stayed in the very simple Paradise Guest house in Triplicane, very close to the main tourist office and a string of cheap but highly rated hotels including the

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