FUN-travel: Marvelous Mamallapuram
December 3, 2016 by Susan Clarke
- 7th century…
…UNESCO World Heritage site…
…more monolithic…
…Indian rock-cut architecture…
…and among the oldest…
…existing examples of Dravidian (South Indian).
- Includes caves…
…mostly carved…
…straight out of granite…
…in the central hillside area…
…and stone structures…
…spread throughout…
…this small seaside town.
- The Shore Temple…
…the oldest structure…
…is a building…
…(no picture available…
…due to downpour…
…during arrival)
- Pancha Rathas…
…contains five rathas…
…literally chariots…
…each carved over a single…
…long stone of granite…
…with some enormous…
…stone animals…
…including a large elephant.
FUN-fact – Lucky for us… Cyclone Nada went south… so we just got a lot of rain and strong winds… mostly after our morning tour.
Not so FF – More temples were spotted in the ocean during the 2004 tsunami.