Elephant bas relief

This phantastic real size bas relief is situated on one of two enourmous adjacent rocks 29m long and 7m high


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Blog: 2) Mamallapuram our first contact with India
Date: February 13th 2005

After bribing the ticket controller with the equivalent of 1 EUR (which seems to represent a fortune for him) we managed to get 2 seats for the 50 km up to Mamallapuram(also known as Mahabalipuram). It took almost 2 hours, but considering all the vehicles on the road (including cattle and a wide range of other animals) this seems to be a good average. In Mamallapuram we selected the Sea ... read more







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