Mammallapuram

Tamil Nadu (Chennai - Mammallapuram - Madurai)

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December 10th 2008
Touch down in India! We are having lots of fun, eating too much and drinking to much chai. After a horrible flight from Bangkok in which I had a heart attack every time I someone on the plane stood up (thanks mum for warning me about possible plane hijackings occurring at Chennai airport the day I arrived) we arrived in dirty, polluted, hot and smelly Chennai. For our first 15 days we are doin ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more