Chennai India

Just two days in India and the world looks different.  It is great to be on land and doing some sightseeing, even in a bus with thirty people.  City of Chennai is a sprawling mix of small towns.  The most impotant feature is the long metropolitan beach second only to Rio in the world.  It was an empty stretch of sand in the dat but at night it came alive with people. Famitlies with children. religious groups chanting, cricket games and long lines of stalls selling every kind of foods barbeque, fried dumplngs corn on the cob and on and on.  It is the life of the city but only when the sun goes  d               Religeon is all over the  city fronm  Hindu shrines  buddhist temple Catholic churches .  Every little shop is another dealer in something from saris to computers.  Luck it was Sunday so the bus could get thru..The people live above their shop much like Brazil.  These countries of many small entrepreneus are switch ing rapidly from brooms to cell phones.  I mad several calls from an unbrella stand set up on the dock with three cell phones.  On e dollarr American for three mionutes          .