madurai temple – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:48:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://rickshawchallenge.gamblingzion.com/uploads/2019/08/cropped-RC-FB-no-background-32x32.png madurai temple – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com 32 32 Rickshaw Challenge Classic Run Days 5 & 6 – It’s time for a rest! https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2017/01/04/rickshaw-challenge-classic-run-days-4-5-its-time-for-a-rest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rickshaw-challenge-classic-run-days-4-5-its-time-for-a-rest Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:48:29 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/?p=14750 Days 5 & 6 of the Rickshaw Challenge Classic Run took participants from Madruai to Tuticorin.
 
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After an amazing New Year’s Eve party that nobody can remember – some people are even said to have slept next to the elevator instead of in their bed – and after driving through the hot sun and the crazy traffic of India for days, our participants enjoyed a well deserved rest day in Madurai.
 

Classic Run Day 5: Glorious Madurai

 
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The buzzling city is home to one of the biggest and surely one of the most beautiful temples of South India. With a bit of luck you will even meet some elephants there. It is a bit hard to get in, but it is totally worth the trouble. Woman have to be dressed modestly and men are not admitted without wearing a traditional dothi (a sarong worn in a skirt-like manner). Meanwhile, other teams chose just to relax and chill out (ie recover from the night before…).
 

Classic Run Day 6: Hitler’s Tea Stall…

 
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The next day promised only a short drive on the way to our Head Scientist Aravind’s hometown Tuticorin, once an important center of pearl trade. Today’s challenges led our teams to search for the famous Hitler’s Tea Stall in Tuticorin (don’t ask, just accept it…), which most of them managed marvelously, but with a bit of understandable confusion. Finding the beautiful blue and white church Our Lady of Snows was a bit easier on the Western history and nobody failed.
 
 
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The day ended with the Travel Scientist’s promise of some amazing events and a huge party for the next evening – more about that to come soon!
 

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