Srirangam temple

Sticking out in the rural south

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August 30th 2010
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 ... 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