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If you haven’t noticed by now, India has a lot of motorbike riders. Motorbikes are less expensive than cars which is why you’ll see them in abundance all over the streets of India

We left early because we were only going to be in Trichy just for the day then planned to return to Chennai later that night. We left Trichy later that night and got back to Chennai sometime after midnight. The next day after we came back from Trichy, we ate Indian food for lunch at the Murugan Idli Shop. India is saturated with so much color in the dresses and fashion in general everywhere (just like in my sari)—and even in some of the food like the fruit stands on the beach.

We ate cotton candy and kulfi ice cream (yummy) while beach strolling and passing by many food vendors— It was also interesting to see how many people were fully clothed at the beach—and fully clothed in the water. It’s so different from how it is in other parts of the world where people wear swimsuits, bikinis, and swim trunks if they’re headed to the beach. I could never wear so many clothes like that on a hot day at the beach at home.

It took me about 32 hours to get to Chennai, India with three different planes and the super long layovers (5 hours, 9 hours, 3 hours)—but I stayed in India almost three weeks. This baffled me even more that some things were similar in price to the USA but yet the people there don’t earn even close to the amount of money we earn in the States. This amazed me because even though a lot of things in India are cheap/inexpensive and it’s easy enough for the local people to “get by” on living because they are used to it so many people there are so poor and can’t afford to do a lot of things with the money they earn.