Ajanta's Penance

mamallapuram

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October 2nd 2011
Mamallapuram 02 October 2011 Arrived in Mamallapuram from Chennai on Friday after catching the Tamil Nadu Tourism Hop-On-Hop-Off Bus. Except that it wasn't. Hop-On-Hop-Off that is. Well it is on Saturdays and Sundays but not...... Well we got here anyway. It is really quite a comfortable little place in a 'backpacker'sort of way. Once again our hotel is not of the 'rav ... 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