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 day exhibition, the team, comprising 31 foreigners and two Indians, covered Chennai, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Madurai, Tuticorin, Kuttalam and reached Thiruvananthapuram.
The Brihadeeswarar temple at Thanjavur, the Manimuthar falls of Tirunelveli, Auroville in Pondicherry, the Meenakshi temple and the Murugan Idly Shop in Madurai, Our Lady Of The Snows churches in Tuticorin, Kuttalam and Kanyakumari were all covered in the rickshaw ride.
“We were asked to do certain challenges every day which was a whole lot of fun,” says Niranjan Bose, one of the Indians who took part in the event.
Finding out what deity was worshipped in a temple, the length of a dam, how to get a receipt at a petrol pump were among the interesting tasks included in the challenges posed by the organisers.
The sixth edition of the Rickshaw Challenge, organised by a Chennai event management company, ended at the Sri Mulam Club in Thiruvananthapuram.
