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Little India
By jeni | August 25, 2008
Fun times in Little India this weekend, despite what seemed like a neverending amount of rain. We took the train down – it’s just a short jaunt from our current casa – and ended up wandering around most of the day. We started out just walking the streets. Saturday of course is a big shopping day so all of the fruit and veggie vendors were unpacking their things and everybody had their best stuff on sale.
Next on the agenda – visiting a Hindu temple. We easily found the biggest temple in the area, and sadly I do not know the name of it. Bad visitor. It was packed, mostly with worshipers, but with some tourists as well, and while we were waking around the temple grounds the first bit of rain came, and then of course it never stopped. Anyway, some pics of the temple. You can’t really use a flash inside because it’s not polite, and it was too dark to get any photos without it, but John did take a little video of the music (below.)
We asked some German tourist to take a picture of us, but it started to rain right as he was snapping and we weren’t really ready yet, so here’s the awkward picture we ended up with.
So rain rain rain it did and we decided it was time to duck inside and get some lunch. We went to a little hole in the wall vegetarian restaurant and it was delicious – we had some awesomely awesome spicy food and then went to see about a henna tattoo.
I just love henna tattoos. I don’t know why. No rhyme or reason for it. This one took the woman about 4 minutes to draw and it will probably last me about a week. Just fun and decorative.
After I got my tattoo, we stood around in the rain for 30 minutes trying to get a taxi, decided it was impossible, booked it back to the MRT station, and made our way down the escalators like drowned rats. Good times were had by all.
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