We arrived in Trichy at 2am, and all the guest houses near the bus station were packed for weddings (December is wedding month) so we "trusted" a rickshaw driver with 100 Rs to bring us supposedly 2 km away to a place he said was cheap. It was just behind the street we were in, 400 meters by rickshaw, and he said the rooms went for 250 Rs...
It wasn't a room, it was a prison cell. It was scary and dark; the blocked toilets were outside, and the shower - well, we didn't even dare to have a shower. We used the toilet only out of extreme necessity.
This picture just makes the place look pretty. In reality, it is one of the saddest things I'd ever seen... except for one room in Kolkata that looked like a good place to die.
We woke up early, just so we could get out of the room. We wanted to get out of Trichy as fast as we could so we also rushed through breakfast and asking for the bus schedules to Madurai.
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| This is a traditional south Indian breakfast of idly and gravy, served on a banana leaf that you fold either towards you or away from you depending on how you like the meal. |
Good thing the main attractions of Trichy can be done in one day. The most popular place to visit is the Sri Ranganathswamy Temple which rises out of this very modern city like a mountain, with stairs going up to the sky.
