Mamallapuram
January 26th 2009 This small town 2 hours outside of Chennai is the home of the world famous Shore Temple, with a population of 13,000, it's no bigger than Maynooth Village. The shore temple was a beautiful building. Although we had expected to find the sea lapping at the base of the temple we learned that since becoming an UNESCO world heritage site, a sea wall has been built to protect the site from further coas
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