Paradise Resort Kumbakonam
3/1216 Tanjore Main Road Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, 612103, India
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The Road to Kumbakonam
We have a slight "oops" leaving the hotel this morning. We're about 15 minutes down the road when one of our number realizes he doesn’t have his wallet. We stop the bus and call back to the hotel. We’re in luck! The wallet is found, but by the time we go back and get it we are a half hour late, and we have a terribly long drive today.< …
The Great Chola Temples
Today is for visiting the Great Chola Temple World Heritage Sites of Gangaikondacholapuram and Airavateshwara. Not names that trip lightly off the tongue! We rise early to visit the first temple, stopping along the way to view crocodiles from a bridge. Our local tour operator provides a delightful ride from our hotel by bullock cart in the …
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...and then i just chundered EVERYWHERRREEE
... I stayed at his tonight and sent me to the diocese to pick up my "bare necessities". I got back, had a smoke and a think and asked to use his computer. My laptop wouldn't connect and his internet was unbelievably slow. I couldn’t read my messages on facebook and my hotmail wouldn’t work either. I gave up after an hour and wrote a lengthy wallpost to Christie. I told her about the hospital visit which I probably shouldn’t have because she ...
Tamil Nadu - Colourful Village Gods
Anyone travelling through rural Tamil Nadu cannot help but notice an assortment of colourful village Gods and guardians on the outskirts of most villages. The worship of these deities is pre Brahminical, dating back to primordial forms ...
Gangaikondacholapuram - Great Living Chola Temple
About 35km north of Kumbakonam lies Gangaikondacholapuram, literally meaning the place [puram] where the Chola [king] brought [konda] the waters of the sacred river Ganga.
It was the capital of ...



