Chennai: Day 2

January 21, 2010

We're coming up on the end of the blog project! Our penultimate day in India was spent doing some last minute sightseeing. By this point I wasn't taking too many pictures, so I've got fewer ones for this post.

Ft. Saint George was where we started out the day. It was always interesting seeing the British architecture interspersed in brief glimpses in between all the Indian, Mughal, and other styles of architecture we were constantly surrounded by.

Used to be a fort: still has cannons. Makes sense, right?

A little model of what the fort used to look like.

A pretty old Bible. SO cool!

These traffic signs were hilarious!

Doesn't get much simpler than this!

I'm in for some excitement...let me get my keys and my phone and we'll be off! lol

The cheap alternative to barbed wire: broken glass.

This was the church at the fort. It's the oldest Christian church east of some famous and important geographical boundary...I think it might be the Bay of Bengal but can't remember for sure.

Some cool stairs up to the entrance.

This is John 3:16 in Tamil :)

We also visited a rather disappointing museum (most of the exhibits were closed) and a building that serves as a law college now, but i saved the pictures of the law school for the next entry: otherwise there wouldn't be that many!

Tomorrow: the last day in India before heading home!!!