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Published: February 17th 2009
The Beach
At Mamallapuram, one of the beautiful towns on the southeastern Indian coast9-10 Feb 2009. We’re on the east coast, in the French-influenced city of Pondicherry. You can see a strong European influence in the building design, wide streets, beach front - and cleanliness. There are two parts of the town: one Indian and dirty and the other French and clean - for the French parts of the city (only), they apparently pay people to pick up trash. Pondicherry is also the home of the Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, a very interesting utopian settlement established to encourage the development of a perfect world based on belief in the divine, but WITHOUT organized religion. After visiting Auroville, we drove to Mamallapuram.
11 Feb 2009. We really liked Mamallapuram, a small coastal city with a very long history. It has a fair number of westerners and tourist traps, but is friendly and relaxed - probably our hottest day yet. We visited some monumental granite carvings and ate fresh seafood.
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