temple carving

Chennai to Mahaballipuram – city to beach via temple town

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February 13th 2015
Mr Hussain tells us we need to leave Chennai by 8am, so we’re up at 6.45 to pack and have breakfast. It’s a two hour drive to Kanchipuram, where there are numerous temples of apparently great renown. This seems odd as it’s not all that far away, but of course we’d forgotten how long it takes to inch your way out of an Indian city. Several times we think we are reaching the edge of the t ... 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