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Published: December 17th 2016
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Easy to find our wayAll the monuments we had visited yesterday were free so today we decided to get the day pass and visit the two main temples in the village. The first was the Five Rathas (Chariots) which are 5 houses carved from a single rock. Taking it into perspective of being carved in 9th century they are pretty impressive. They were discovered covered in sand by the English 200 years ago which is why they are still in reasonable condition. We met a family from Hyderabad who offered some of their picnic lunch. They failed at identifying the usual answer to Where is New Zealand. Normally if you say same place as Bendon MacCullum comes from they know instantly.
The second visit was to the Shore Temple. It's on a small peninsula overlooking the beach on the Bay of Bengal. Impressive waves rolling in after the storm. On the way we were approached by a group wanting to take our photo. Don's devilous good looks do that some times?. They were a group of teachers and student from a high school. Lots of fun and laughter as we exchanged photos.
That evening being Friday we hunted out a beer. All the
restaurants to date didn't serve alcohol so we wandered down to a place called Moonraker's in backpackistan and ordered two large bottles of the local brew called 'British Imperial Lager'. Served in a tin cup ice cold. At 6.5% it was decidedly sweet and refreshing. We managed to get home through the darkness without tripping up. Still no power in the town.
We are heading for Pondicherri tomorrow, two hours down the road. We need to start finding some working ATM's and make some miles before Xmas.
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Sachin
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Have a good time in Pondicherry.