The road goes on...

We passed by a number of villages with small huts covered with thatching. When we stopped at a particularly nice one, under the shade of a great banyan tree, the people living there came out to me us. They were extraordinarly friendly. There's something we affluent westerners have to learn from these people who are living simply but happily.


Village under a magnificent banyan	Even the bus swerves to avoid Siv's ...

Children and other village inhabitants

Village barber	Itinerant pan salesman

As we went on, the road got worse and worser and worstest. For 100 km or so, it was full of potholes, so that we crept along with Senthil making valiant efforts to avoid the potholes and the busses. The government seems to employ only madmen to drive busses and they drive at high speed without worrying about potholes or human life. Indeed, we almost were run into by one. Senthil was so shaken he had to stop for a moment and breathe hard. And he's used to it!


Potholes!	Manually separating grain

Two loaded carts	Sugar cane

Hibiscus and icons on the dashboard	Another Aiyannar shrine

Friendly guys under a cashew tree	Elephant Rock, north of Madurai

Shortly before arriving at Tiruvannamalai, we stopped at Gingee Fort.

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