I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 681. Today the amateur traveler talks about beaches and

temples and lighthouses, monkeys and overnight trains and tuck tucks as we go to Chennai in India.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Chennai. I'd like to welcome the show Amanda from millennial traveler that's traveler with

two-Ls the UK Way.

Amanda welcome the show.

Yes, thank you so much for having me as a guess.

And Amanda has come on to talk about Southern India, Chennai.

And Amanda, what's your connection with Chennai?

Well, I must say that I got introduced to Southern India specifically because I actually had studied abroad with friends

that came from Chennai and years thereafter they were continuously inviting me to go to India.

So when I found myself in Southeast Asia, I decided to take a detour and reconnect

with old friends and get a local point of view about the city of Chennai.

Excellent.

And why should someone go to Chennai, India?

First of all, it does break a lot of the stereotypes regarding India.

It is much more of a spacious city than you would find other cities like Delhi and Mumbai, so I would say it's much less chaotic of an atmosphere.

Secondly, it also has been ranked one of the most safest cities within India as well as

Southeast Asia and also in regards to the safest city for a woman. So I think that

should be appealing initially because I know some people have a lot of

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