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Residence Inn Chennai. An amazing Indian buffet we were treated to. Hard to imagine such opulence so close to such poverty.

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Monkeys love to congregate and climb all over Hindu temples.

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Quite a few people live on the streets of Calcutta. I walked past this guy enough times to know that...

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St. Thomas (Santhome) church. This is how he met the end of his days.

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A dilapidated series of buildings serve as Chennai's museum. The best kept place housed Bronze statues of Hindu gods.

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The poor all over the world live where land is the cheapest: along rivers, near bridges, along rail lines.

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Part of the University of Chennai

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No one can "doubt" that St. Thomas is a beautiful church!

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Lindsey doesn't look too happy perched in top of that elephant at a Hindu temple.

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Beautiful and sprawling Hindu Temple.

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Hand In Hand is an NGO that seems to have gotten Microcredit right!

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Women in a bakery started with a microloan. The youngest one has the most education (10th grade).

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Thankfully there were enough sti-down toilets that I never had to do a "#2" on one of these.

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Jackie and Lindsey having fun in an auto rickshaw (they must have already negotiated a low price).

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Spencer's Mall is THE place to go get good quality cheap stuff in Chennai.

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Organic Ayurveda food served on banana leaves and eaten by hand, preferrably your left hand (or is it right?).

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These guys were from Northern India, on a pilgrimage to see the temples in the south. Chennai has one of the longest beaches in the world.

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