India by Train: Six weeks in photos » Mahabalipuram http://indiabytrain.mattaranha.co.uk Matt + Jen's India Blog Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:43:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Mahabalipuram http://indiabytrain.mattaranha.co.uk/2008/08/29/ http://indiabytrain.mattaranha.co.uk/2008/08/29/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:06:38 +0000 matt + jen http://indiabytrain.mattaranha.co.uk/?p=29 About two hours drive from Chennai, we visited the port town of Mahabalipurum. There we visited several temples created by the Pallavas. Each temple was created at different periods and demonstrated how they developed their construction techniques.


‘Descent of the Ganges’


Pancha Rathas


The Shore Temple

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