Palace #1
Monday, 2. November 2009, 12:43:34
The Green Hotel bills itself as an ecologically friendly, environmentally conscious hotel. That is not why I chose it. I chose it because it was relatively inexpensive and it is a renovated palace - the former residence of the Maharaja's daughters, when they wanted a break from the main palace. Overall it was charming - lovely ambience, nice staff, interesting library, and great food. (The bakery staff were trained by the frenchman who runs "La Boulangerie" here in Chennai.)
It is a mark of our years in India that the fact that it did not have electricity 80% of the time didn't even phase us. I had packed flashlights (along with my mace and plenty of toilet tissue), and the hotel provided candles for free.
What they lacked in electric (generators are baaaad for the environment), they made up for with all the lovely solar hot water you could use. And a bathtub. Candlelit baths all around.
It is a mark of our years in India that the fact that it did not have electricity 80% of the time didn't even phase us. I had packed flashlights (along with my mace and plenty of toilet tissue), and the hotel provided candles for free.
What they lacked in electric (generators are baaaad for the environment), they made up for with all the lovely solar hot water you could use. And a bathtub. Candlelit baths all around.
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ECopley # 2. November 2009, 14:13
These palaces you are visiting look so nice. You make me want to tour the world. Thanks so much for sharing these photos with us.
myfamilyinIndia # 3. November 2009, 05:09
Come and visit!