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Mamallapuram Slideshow
Mamallapuram
Travel Blogs from Mamallapuram, India
Mamallapuram
24/9/06 Now im in some really complicatedly named place starting with M and it is really nice, got a very nice room with a double bed, nice bathroom and huge tv (although it dosnt work) for 150 - it is so much better than last nights! I took a bus ...
Chennai
The route to Chennai wa horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It started off ok, we hot a taxi to the ferry prot, caught a boat over the river which droped us right at the station. We then embarked on the mamouth 27 hour journey. The train was as nice as the ...
What a pallava
... way for Rs500. We jumped at the chance to avoid the hassle of a bus ride and half the journey time. I instantly liked Mamallapuram with its good selection of restaurants, and friendly shops. We checked into the Tina Blue View hotel and went to see the ...
Reflections on our time in India
... Japan, by way of example, are so built-up and industrialised that it is as though their entire countries are floodlit. Northern India, despite a population density that rates as almost the highest in the world, is dark by comparison. The reason for this, ...
Sure, 'shore temples' so what......!
... polite English girl inside of me nodded and said "Right..Right....Right.Thank you!" Too stubborn to cross off Mamallapuram as 'left.... left.... left' I spent a paranoid day wandering around some overpriced temples in the heat getting more ...
Chennai
... read the poem Polina sent me - it was really nice. Got to try and stay positive though, i have a few months of travel in India, a long treck and the hopefully i will see her again :-) Tomorrow im off to a town 2 hours south of here, it sounds ...
Mam in Mamallupurum
... come on Nicholson snap out of it! We headed to Kolkata on our morning train and waved South India a final farewell. What did the North hold for us? Were we really going to the Kolkata ( Calcutta of ...
Big Game
Jak sem vcera dopsal, sel na internet a zjistil, ze dneska je zapas vo zlatou mezi Indii a Sri Lankou. V Mumbai. Abych nezapomel, v cricketu. Pratele, ziju v americe uz pres ctyricet let. Miluju americkej fotbal.Tak ze sem ve spolecnosti skoro prijatej. ...
Hairy Caterpillar Hives For My Birthday
Two days ago i arrived in Mamallapuram after taking a three hour bus from Chennai. The trip down the Coromandel Coast was a bit strange. There were large stands of conifer type trees with Indian holidaymakers eating picnics on the sand ...
Mamallpurum - anywhere but Chennai
On paper Mamallpuram looks like a top spot - it's located right on a beach and it's a World Heritage town to boot. The reality though is a little less impressive - firstly the beach is so filth people don't even attempt to sunbathe there not ...
My will is strong!..??
... different assumptions. Assuming that I don't have a money limit helped me to calm down a little :). In any case I can't stay in India after March 15th - so I should take a flight out. Where to - well, Bangkok seems to me like a good option. Well, then ...
Tiruvannamalai
Packing in a tiny room is irritating. Then the backpack feels really heavy - probably I used to doing nothing in the last four days! I walk out of the hotel and have a breakfast. In the South in addition to "classical" deep fry they also have "idli". ...
Mamallapuram
... because in India they throw the trash through the window whereas in China they drop it to the floor). I find Mamallapuram a light version of India because of its size and the amount of hotels and shops targeting Western tourists, which has the advantage ...
Grumpy & hot
After some of the worst food we've had in India, being overcharged for our sweat box room, with a fan that sounded like an aeroplane taking off and the most mosquito bites so far (20 on Kirsty's left foot); we were both a bit grumpy. Forcing ourselves to ...
Small beach resort
... rocks. Around town locals are spending many hours carving objects from stones to sell to tourists for a few dollars. Mamallapuram is so much more attractive then Chennai that around half of the passengers are staying on and will proceed direct ...
Mamallapuram
Stayed here a few days and got massacred by mossies. Mahabalipuram(also known as Mamallapuram) is a 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. It is believed to have ...
Fisherman's village
... and there is an AC socket! Finally I had a chance to try to code something! The place feels totally different from what I had in India so far. I tried to understand it better, and now I think that it's all because in my head the town associates with a ...
Down in the dumps
... into releasing ther poison by the keepers - needless to say, they got a tip for their brave efforts. Before leaving Mamallapuram I treated myself to a very relaxing Ayurvedic massage, which required me to get completely naked and have oil rubbed all over ...
Beach and Seafood
Dave, Jim, Clint and myself have just spent a very relaxing weekend on the Eastern coastline of India, at a place called Mamallapuram. At only around 12,000 people, it is distinctly unique within India - not filled to the brim with people. It is a ...
Hit or Miss?
... our faces submerged into the sweaty backs of the passengers in front means the goat shall live another day. Welcome to Mamallapuram! Honking rubbish filled beach, no comparison to the west coast. This said the friendly locals, talented stone carvers and ...
The Godfather day/night
Yesterday's screening ended too late to get up early for a run. I made an effort and got to the beach by 0730 to see the "morning catch". There are different types of nets in use here. The more fine one is used to catch small fish and shrimps. The more ...
Zeitgeist
I don't think I did anything special today - some internet browsing in search for the things to do in Thailand. I wanted to go with the fisherman, but there was nothing to talk to - so I went swimming a little. In the afternoon I met Yohav and tried to ...
The Marble Cit
We first went to Mamalapuram mostly because of the temples. It has famous temples like The Shore Temple, Arjuna's Penance and The Five Rathas. We knew vaguely about some stonecraft college and that it is a good place to buy Granite and Marble items ...
Jo more....
... na druhy strane ulice, nam ukazala to autobusovy nadrazi. Mam vo to detatko strach. Standartni bordel na nadrazi, hledani autobusu. Do Mamallapuram?...tamhle ten..ukazal na tri busiky....nastesti umel trochu po anglicku a rek griiin... Este ze to rek. Ty ...
Mamallapuram
We hoped on a local bus this morning to go down the coast. It took us soooo long to get out of teh city - the traffice in Chennai is a million times worse than london I think! Or maybe the endless horns, heat, and crowds made it more ...
Total Eclipse
After what seemed like a weekend break in Europe, we packed up and headed 86km up the coast to our final location in India, Mamallapuram. We had high expectations for this place after spending some time learning about South Indias past, we had read about ...
Mamallapuram Beach Bums 24th - 28th Nov
After the most wonderful bus journey through the Tamil countryside, we land in Mamallapuram to find a suspiciously agreeable rickshaw driver willing to drive us to town for 20rupees. This is, of course, because he drives us straight into the foyer of ...
Gulf of Bengal, take 2
... I tell you about Chennai, hmm, nothing much. I got a bus to the bus station (pretty clean one, btw) and then another bus to Mamallapuram. It took us more than an hour to leave Chennai, but it was boring enough for me to fall asleep. When I woke we were ...
Holy Sandstone!
... of headed to some of the sights that afternoon, since we realized that all billion people of India's population apparently were taking their Saturday to visit Mamallapuram. We spent the day looking at the city's main attractions - Arjuna's Penance, ...
Backpackistan
... man e vant me å spis da ;) Vi hadde i går kveld sport i resepsjon kordan vi sku kom oss fra Chennai te mamallapuram .. 3 alternativ .. to innebar 2 eller 3 bussa og en va taxi. Buss alternativan va såklart d billigste , å taxi sku kost 1200 inr .. ...