Mamallapuram etc

At the end we did not work one day but two days on the set of Bhagam Bhag. The second day Bouke was dressed up as a policeman.  Bouke likes to work he even worked on his holiday, but he had good fun. Working as an extra is not that glamorous, it is a lot of waiting, sometimes for hours in the baking sun. But when it starts it is a lot of fun. I had a good book with me and there were some nice people it all counts.  The next day Bouke stayed in Mamallapuram for some more relaxing and sightseeing. I went to another movie set this time Vattaram  this is a Tamil movie with a lot of fight scenes. This time the foreign extras were very small only 5 people. The movie set was on  Golden beach just below Chennai. Luckily it was a cloudy day otherwise we would have been fried. Many takes had to be taken over and over again, yeah it was bit boring. At least I spent the whole day on the beach and they pay me a bit. In the evening we went for dinner somewhere along the beach.

The 17 of September we decided to make a daytrip to Kanchipuram.
It takes the bus about 2 hours. Most amazing about buses in India is that they mostly leave on time, amazing. So we were on time and we could sit. In Kanchipuram we saw  5 amazing temples with many devotees. I guess the most impressing was the Ekambareswarar temple. It is  a working Shiva temple with many devotees and Sadus and a lot of drums making it a very impressive temple. After seeing so many temple and devotees we were glad to be back in quite Mammalapuram. On one of these evening we had dinner at a restaurant called Nautillius the have the best spagetti saus in India. Just amazing I could eat that stuff every day.

The 18 September we moved to Pondicherry, we planned to go early but at the end we left around 1 pm. We had a nice and long breakfast at the Nautillius. After a few hours we arrived in Pondy.. we stayed in the Park Ashram guesthouse this is a very nice place near the beach, overlooking the sea.

But later more about beautiful Pondy.