Hotel Baboo Soorya Kanchipuram

... is made of a single
piece of stone.



The 100 pillar hall [actually 96
pillars] is an art lovers delight,
boasting magnificent stone sculptures,
carvings, pillars and fine architectural
detail. The 96 carved granite pillars
are in 12 rows of 8 each with 4 on
either side of the central aisle. A
huge platform rests on a large ...

... Swarupini, seated with Bhrama Vishnu Rudra Eswara and Sadasiva. A Sri Chakra was installed in front of the image by Adi Sankaracharya, and worship is offered to it.

More about the temple at:

http://www.srikanchikamakshi .org/kamakshi-ambal.htm


http ://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/kamakshi .html

... Felsen liegenden Hoehlentempel und den riesiegen runden Stein 'Krishnas Butterball angesehen'. Ansonsten gab es in dem Ort dann auch nicht viel zu tun, ausser in den recht entspannten Restaurants zu sitzen oder vor unserem Zimmer mit dem zum Guesthouse gehorenden Welpen zu spielen. Auf jeden Fall ist hier alles sehr viel entspannter und man muss nicht die ganze Zeit Leute abwimmeln (ausserdem sind hier sehr viele Freaks unterwegs, halt genau die Art Leute die man auf einem Indientrip ...

India will sweep you off your feet..either you land soft or hard aka you love it or hate it. We are absolute lovers and still can't get over that first wow-feeling. We admit that we were nervous before getting here having heard so many crazy stories....but the craziness is what makes it so charming. When we arrived we experienced our first Indian head-wobble by the immigration guy and it ...

The next day a bunch of friends and I went to Kanchipuram. Kanchipuram is also known as the city of a thousand temples. It was about a two hour ride from Chennai. Our driver got us a guide who turned out to be a priest at one of the temples we would be visiting. Priests are part of the Brahman caste, the top caste in India. Our guides father was a priest, and his eldest son is studying to become one as well. Having such a knowledgeable guide really enhanced our ...

... that we were all white (he was Indian by the way), he took us to this ****** house with half the specifications it was supposed to have. We refused to stay in it, and after arguing for 10 minutes he took us to the house we were actually supposed to have, a beautiful house with a pool about 1/2 mile from a beautiful beach. He then proceeded to ask my friend James for an 'extra gift' based on his help.. which we promptly ignored. My friend James, is half ...

We left Chennai early in the morning on the one day Mamallapuram tour run by the Tamil Nadu tourism office. Kanchipuram was our first stop and we would spend the entirity of the morning there. Like many of Tamil Nadu's major cities, this town is considered a holy place and is known for it's ornate temples and we visited two of them on the tour. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to enter the inner sanctum in either one because they are off-limits to non-Hindus, unless ...

Undoubtedly, traveling by train is, for me, the most enjoyable way to cover the vast landscape that is India. Making my way down South from Kolkata, I started to grasp just how huge this country is. Nepal had a cozy feeling about it, the fringes never seeming to far away, and taking the bus from city to city and looking out into the farmland, you could see that the land terraced from this point to that point belonged to the home on the edge there, and buckwheat ...

... their morning smoke and others I'm appalled to see, using the beach as their toilet. I notice a strange ritual at the end of the beach. A man is planting a banana tree in the sand as the waves lap at his feet. After a few minutes of prayer, he digs it back up and carries it away. I send a silent prayer out to him. The famous Shore Temple is their backdrop. It is one of the earliest stone temples ...