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Mamallapuram Slideshow
Mamallapuram
Travel Blogs from Mamallapuram, India
Pedicure by Garra Rufa
This is a totally free day to enjoy the lovely beach resort and spa. One of the more unusual treatments offered here is a pedicure by the famous "Doctor Fish"—the Garra Rufa. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_fish Several of us decide to be ...
Photos
Here's the new ones http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=334009&id=701675288&l=94748f2d51 And some slightly older ones http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=331002&id=701675288&l=be15ac7fe3 ...
Bit of luxury
... keep in mind), about 30rs, bus is not too crowded and we are happy. Due to camera incident we miss out seeing Mamallapuram, I don't really mind not having done my pre-trip research too well (baaaad girl!) In Mamallapuram we hook up with Tuomas and ...
Mamallapuram: Goodbye India! We'll Miss You!
If you're entering or leaving India through Chennai, then Mamallapuram is the ideal transition. If we had an accurate picture of the place from our trusty Lonely Planet, we would have shortened our stay by two days in Pondicherry and given them to this ...
1968 Revisited, India style
Leaving London, had only about 1.5 hour extra delay, and were a bit concerned when snowflakes started drifting through the atmosphere. However, we took off. Loud applause from passengers. British Airways did feed us two meals, free wine, and caring ...
Krishna's Butterball! and some other cool stuff.
... which I can imagine terrifies many, but I don't really know if it does. The bus dropped us off in the city center. Mamallapuram is a very small town famous for its carvings and temples. The shore temple is one of the most photographed in India. We ...
Back to ´the world´
... hete douche J. We zijn vanuit de Andamans naar Chennai gevlogen en direct vanaf het vliegveld doorgegaan naar het strandplaatsje/vissersdorp Mamallapuram. Dit was meteen al wennen en druk met heel veel en een heel ander soort toeristen dan we gewend zijn ...
Narodky
Pred niekolkymi rokmi som si zaumienil, ze vzdy na moje narodeniny budem niekde inde vo svete. Tak som tento krat v Chennai v Indii. :-) Parada! :-) Rano vstavame o 6:00, dame si ranajky a mame len 45 minut meskanie oproti nasmu povodnemu planu. Prideme ...
Temples and Tailors
... the roof watch life from dawn to deep tropical dark. It is hot. And humid. Willow, we have only seen one cat so far in India. But, we did see a 1-day old calf last night, suckling in the middle of the street, so no traffic was moving. Dogs seem to get ...
Velkonocny pondelok
Dnes je Velkonocny pondelok ale tu v Indii sa to az tak velmi neberie, takze okrem plazovania sa mame aj stretnutie na obed....hmmm po obede ... trochu neskor. Este jednu vec som sa v Indii nenaucil a to, ze urcite veci nemam robit a nechat na obsluhu. ...
Yawnnnnnn....lazy
... there hills..so time to pack up the bikini and dig out slightly more sensible attire for hill walks. Ooty is supposed to be one of the most romantic places in India. I shall report back if indeed I find the love of my life. See you in a few ...
Kancheepuram/Mamallapuram
... only Americans in sight, though we did stumble upon a few Europeans today. We made our way to the outskirts of Mamallapuram for lunch after another long bus ride along the coast. I definitely witnessed all aspects of India along the way and upon ...
Mamallapuram - Granite Town
... as express buses and unknown to us, don’t actually go into town, but drop you off on the highway going past Mamallapuram, and so we were unceremoniously dumped on the highway, but the inevitable auto-rickshaws were there to take you to the ...
A Parting of Ways
... there. Desperately in need of a break, and now parting ways with Annie, I took a taxi straight from the airport to Mamallapuram, a seaside village on the Coromandel coast, about 60km south of Chennai. After a couple of days here, my spinning world ...
Dance of the happy cows in Mamallapuram
... pizza and burgers in the western-orientated restaurants are paying quadruple that ..... at least - Ros). We happened to arrive in Mamallapuram during their annual dance festival. We went along last night after dinner to watch the show, which took place ...
To Mamallapuram
... we all slept well as the train was pretty slow; we have travelled some 30k out of Chennai to Mamallapurum and I've left her at the pool. India continues to fascinate - we had a local DVD on the bus - every 15 minutes its a song or a shoot-out and lots of ...
Relaxen op de backwaters
Na een eerst vermoeiende week uitblazen op bootje in het zalig rustige landschap van de backwaters. Om 9u00 werden we gewekt door de geur van koffie. Lieve was de gelukkigste vrouw van de wereld: een boot vol niet-koffieliefhebbers dus een hele ...
Cochin, Het charmante toeristische vissersdorpje
Onze laatste ochtend op de boot werden we gewekt door het zonlicht. Na opnieuw een stevig ontbijt pakten we onze zakken om onze reis verder te zetten op het vasteland. Tijdens het ledigen van de frigobox gunden we het deksel een frisse duik. Onze ...
"Excuse me, Sir! Some nice stonecarvings?"
... see my shop?" "Look, look, look! Original Pashmina shawl." "Yes, friend! Come see, I making good price!" In Mamallapuram gibt es unendlich viele Shops mit dem üblichen Touristensortiment. Und jeder will einem etwas verkaufen, natürlich für den ...
Goodbye India
We spent our last 4 days in Mamallapuram. we were supposed to head up to Chennai but after everyone told us how awful it was, we decided to give it a miss. Mal is a quiet seaside town, if not a bit touristy. On the first day we got there, we talked to our ...
History Nerd
Mamallapuram (also called Mahabalipuram) has some of the oldest temples in the world! I'm really excited to see ...
Mamallapuram, Grandes Rocas
... solo con el calzoncillo tipo pañal, el que usaba Gandhi, muy pintoresco. Después de dos horas de viaje llegamos a Mamallapuram, tuvimos suerte que nos toco un buen conductor. En cuanto bajamos del aire acondicionado hay mucho mucho calor, más de ...
much better now thanks! :) ...loving india again!
Well, what a breath of fresh air (literally and metaphorically) this place has been! Just what the doctor ordered! I have met some lovely people and have been spending my days lounging in various beach-front restaurants and swimmming in the sea - ...
bollywoods internet connection at $1 an hour
... same (at times) but that task of nothingness which was left behind around a month ago as the chaotic realities of india took hold hasbeen pulled back into arms length here in the small beach side travller commune of mamllurapoum. awfully expensive ...
Stupid Overnight Trains
... just so gross. So, now I'm exhausted. When we arrived in Chennai, I had the reality check that I am still in India. Chennai is India's 4th largest city so it is quite populated. There were people sleeping on the streets and garbage everywhere that I felt ...
Into Tamil Nadu and Kerala
... and eventually I had to tear myself away, feeling that I ought to take the chance to do more sight seeing whilst I was in India. A 32 hour and very comfortable train journey from Delhi brought me here to Chennai. Staff woke us with flasks of coffee and ...
wie urlaub
nach Chennai 2h im bus und ich war in Mamallapuram. ein ort fuer urlaub. viele tempel - sandstrand aber auch viel wind weshalb sich mehr kuehe sonnen als touristen. hat mich an meinen urlaub mit robert in den fruehen 90er jahren in sizilien erinnert, wo ...
Band of Gypsies
One of the final attractions of Mamallapuram I had yet to see was the 1300 year old Shore Temple. Well, this is only partially true. The previous day, after an extensive walk on the beach, I came to the cordoned off area of the Shore Temple ...