Mamallapuram Dance Festival 2009/2010

Here is the new programme for the Mamallapuram Dance Festival; 25.December 2009 - 25. January 2010.

2nd Year of the Gecko Cafe successfully finished

Today is our 2nd Birthday. Two years ago we started downstairs with only a few tables but much passion. So many things have happened until now. We want to thank all our friends and supporting people as well as our faithful guests for a great time and we promise to keep on doing our work with heart and soul, as it is in the character of the Gecko Cafe anyways.

December 2009

WE ARE READY!
The Christmas-Season can begin. We put up the X-mas star, we prepared the signboards -- you cant miss us!












The new crew in the Gecko: Ramesh is back in the kitchen with Baskar, Alex and Muthu are ready to support them.

We are in the guidebook!

Finally we got an entry in the 2010 le' guide du ROUTARD .

The latest pictures of the Internet Cafe:

The Gecko Internet Cafe opened!

The buildingwork has finished and now the Cafe has been opend this morning with a special Pooja.






The new owner of the Gecko Internet Cafe: Suman and his neighbor Mani

Building work AGAIN

Now its time for the final decoration inside:

We finished our little shop aside from the gecko-cafe and now it lookes like this:

this is how it was before:

Soon the new shop, including several internet-places, will open besides the entrance to the Gecko-cafe in Othavadai Cross St 13.

The buildingwork started in July and will finish by the end of September.

Here you get some impressions of the indian buildingsite:

Umas Bronze - Radha

Uma finished his wonderful bronze - sculptur of Radha. The statue is 40 centimeter high, he used 5 metalls, so it has 10 kg weight.
See the work in full beauty here:

Mani in Dresden Newspaper

Mani got an article in Dresdens local Newspaper. He did give his interview at the beginning of June, before he left back to India. Today it was published. You can read it all here:


GERMAN Original:


english translation:

Season August 2009

After the big wedding, the Gecko-Cafe returned to normal business.
It is open and welcomes every guest in its special way with nice atmosphere, friendly waiters and delicious food. And if you are lucky, the new family-member Ammu serves her great Indian breakfast, Dosas and Dhal to you.

A Wedding in the Gecko

We did have a big South-Indean Wedding! Manis brother Uma got married on July 1st. The Gecko-Cafe was nicely decorated and looked festive. The shady entrance was incredibly inviting, unfortunatly it cannot stay forever, because the street is to small and big cars got much trouble passing by.







In the entrance there were ceremonies before the wedding every morning and evening.







They young couple looked most beautiful at the typical south-indean wedding and now the young lady belongs to the "gecko-cafe-family".