Road trip to the southern temple towns in Tamil Nadu took us to Kanchipuram, Tiruvannamalai, Trichy, Karaikudi and Pondy. Not sure how many of these qualify to be strictly temple towns but hell, in Tamil Nadu, every street qualifies with its small auto stand temple! I took a great deal planning this trip but more importantly figuring out how to blend into the rural towns. I was rudely informed that with my current hairstyle there is no hope in hell of blending. That being said, I took what I considered my most modest t shirts and trousers and headed south from Chennai. Kanchipuram provided the best in temples, I loved the architecture and variety it provided. As we visited the temples, I desperately reached into the recesses of my mind for all religious upbringing to ensure
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