My friends and me decided to go to Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) from Chennai. Usually, the Sun will be very cruel in Mahabalipuram. But the day we chose to go was very ideal and not so hot but still we ended up with a bad tan was another story....:-)
We started early and it took us 2 hrs to reach Mahabalipuram from Chennai. We took an ordinary MTC (Metro Transport Corporation of Chennai) bus. The travel was good. We saw lot of salt farms and all.
Mahabalipuram is a very old city. See the history in Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabalipuram.
The city is full of old temples, rocks and stone carvings. We first went to Hotel Mamalla Bhavan for breakfast which was very cheap and the food was excellent.
Then we located a tourist information office from where we got a map of the city. On the way we saw lot of stone carving shops. The statues were beautiful, especially statues of Buddha.
Then went to the historical 'Shore Temple' where we could see the very old stone temple built in 6th century which is now maintained by Archaeological Survey of India.
Before I go on, let me share some photos first.
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| Buddha Statue in a Stone Carving Shop |
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| Stone Carving Shop |
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| Stone Carving Shop |
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| The Shore Temple |
I think I better continue in the next post. This one is getting too large...
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