Tuticorin

More fun on the Classic Run!     After a fantastic day of Pongal festivities near Tuticorin, the Classic Run Rickshaw Challenge headed out onto the road again. The cities in our sights for Days 8 and 9 were Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari, and there was plenty of Tamilnadu still to explore. Here’s Princely, organiser of the Classic Run,...Read More

Pongal Day is always a highlight of the Classic Run.     By Day 7, the Classic Run teams had trained, learned to cope with Indian roads, and had their fair share of adventures. Now it was time for something different: a test of how well they could cook (and look) in traditional local style. It’s...Read More

After a day exploring Madurai, it was time to visit Tuticorin.     The Rickshaw Challenge Classic Run began with training in Chennai then a great first few days on the road, but the wasn’t even halfway done! The fifth day of our event was a chance to explore Madurai, the magnificent temple city famous for...Read More

  The Classic Run visits 8 fascinating cities.     It’s almost time for the Classic Run Rickshaw Challenge, with this year’s event set to start on December 28th in Chennai, making it the perfect way to spend the New Year. On the teams’ 950km rickshaw odyssey, they’ll see an incredible range of cities, brimming...Read More

Days 5 & 6 of the Rickshaw Challenge Classic Run took participants from Madruai to Tuticorin.     After an amazing New Year’s Eve party that nobody can remember – some people are even said to have slept next to the elevator instead of in their bed – and after driving through the hot sun...Read More

State Highway 49, aka East Coast Road is a two lane highway in Tamil Nadu, India, built along the coast of the Bay of Bengal connecting Tamil Nadu’s state capital city Chennai with Cuddalore via Pondicherry and up to Tuticorin. Here’s an East Coast Road drive clip, filmed & edited by Pierre-Emmanuel Testard East Coast...Read More

Classic Run 2014 is in full swing and people are talking about it. ‘The hawkers and the motorists were bewildered seeing foreigners behind the wheels of brightly painted autorickshaws in Coimbatore on Sunday morning. Well, the onlookers didn’t know they were part of Rickshaw Challenge — Classic Run 2014, which will see them attempt to...Read More

A 2012 Classic Run piece form the Deccan Chronicle, titled ‘Southern sojourn on tuk-tuks‘ ‘It is not the whizzing sound of a plane or the noisy beats of a train they chose. The 33 participants of Rickshaw Challenge bobbed up and down through the roads of south India in 15 auto rickshaws. In a 10...Read More