Mamallapuram now renamed to Mahabalipuram is a place which I had a deep desire to visit after I read "Sivagamiyin sabatham". It is a tourist town 60 km south of Chennai known for its stone carvings. This town was built by the Pallava king Narashima Varman. One more reason why I wanted to go here is because I am staying so close to this place,its just a half an hour drive.
I was going on asking my busy room mates to plan a trip on a week end. But no one was ready saying they are just stones. What is there to see. This morons never wanted to take a break from there 24/7 work culture.
But now changed plan to go there along with Dhiren, Vinoth, Vignesh and Jai. We didn't have any plans before hand. I spent the week end in there room and we started planning things the day before. I insisted on going on bus but others insisted on a rented car. But Jai came with an option to borrow his friends car.
Lucky we took that option. We started in the morning(11.00 A.M). That is the time when we all woke up and got ready, so we call it as morning. We had our breakfast at around 11.30. We took the ECR(East Coast Road) to Mamallapuram. We started explaining delhite Dhiren Gupta about the story of Mamallapuram.
On the way we visited Muttukadu backwaters. It was such an waste of time. There were two options available for boating. One which you peddle and the other one is like the water biking. The problem the water stinks a lot. While water biking you get wet for sure and we were not ready to get wet. Moreover we didn't feel anything attractive there. I mean it looked something like a desert nothing green. We got down there, saw the situation and started back our journey. We wasted our precious time and the money we spend on parking.
Next on our way was the crocodile park. Passed some time there and we continued our journey. The interesting part of the park was the crocodile fossil present there. It was amazing. Not only us most the people visited there had a doubt these crocodiles were alive. Almost all lied there as if they were some stone sculptures from Mahabalipuram.
We moved on and next on our list was the Tiger caves. Took some snaps there and moved on. Had our lunch when it was around 3 or something.
We entered the town. Its not worth calling it a town. You can call it as a village rather. It is fully filled with resorts and restaurants. I wonder why people stay there rather than Chennai. We climbed the rock to have a look on the sculptures and the light house. We were amazed about the sculptures. They were awesome only if you had a taste towards art.
We inquired a tourist guide about the places to visit, and he learned that there is Pancha Pandava Ratham and the Shore temple more to visit and also we were left out of time as they close those things by 5.30.
We rushed to the Pancha Pandava Rathas and we were not allowed in saying the ticket counters close by 5 :-( We tried to bribe the watch man to get in but nothing worked not because the watchman was a fan of Anna Hazarae but because he had some superior officer in and he was afraid of getting caught.
So we returned home without visiting Pancha Pandava Ratha and Shore temple.
I was going on asking my busy room mates to plan a trip on a week end. But no one was ready saying they are just stones. What is there to see. This morons never wanted to take a break from there 24/7 work culture.
But now changed plan to go there along with Dhiren, Vinoth, Vignesh and Jai. We didn't have any plans before hand. I spent the week end in there room and we started planning things the day before. I insisted on going on bus but others insisted on a rented car. But Jai came with an option to borrow his friends car.
Lucky we took that option. We started in the morning(11.00 A.M). That is the time when we all woke up and got ready, so we call it as morning. We had our breakfast at around 11.30. We took the ECR(East Coast Road) to Mamallapuram. We started explaining delhite Dhiren Gupta about the story of Mamallapuram.
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| @ Muttukadu Back Water |
On the way we visited Muttukadu backwaters. It was such an waste of time. There were two options available for boating. One which you peddle and the other one is like the water biking. The problem the water stinks a lot. While water biking you get wet for sure and we were not ready to get wet. Moreover we didn't feel anything attractive there. I mean it looked something like a desert nothing green. We got down there, saw the situation and started back our journey. We wasted our precious time and the money we spend on parking.
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| Crocodile Fossil |
Next on our way was the crocodile park. Passed some time there and we continued our journey. The interesting part of the park was the crocodile fossil present there. It was amazing. Not only us most the people visited there had a doubt these crocodiles were alive. Almost all lied there as if they were some stone sculptures from Mahabalipuram.
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| Tiger Caves |
We moved on and next on our list was the Tiger caves. Took some snaps there and moved on. Had our lunch when it was around 3 or something.
We entered the town. Its not worth calling it a town. You can call it as a village rather. It is fully filled with resorts and restaurants. I wonder why people stay there rather than Chennai. We climbed the rock to have a look on the sculptures and the light house. We were amazed about the sculptures. They were awesome only if you had a taste towards art.
We inquired a tourist guide about the places to visit, and he learned that there is Pancha Pandava Ratham and the Shore temple more to visit and also we were left out of time as they close those things by 5.30.
We rushed to the Pancha Pandava Rathas and we were not allowed in saying the ticket counters close by 5 :-( We tried to bribe the watch man to get in but nothing worked not because the watchman was a fan of Anna Hazarae but because he had some superior officer in and he was afraid of getting caught.
So we returned home without visiting Pancha Pandava Ratha and Shore temple.
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