Mamallapuram Stories


India!

Hi everyone! It is time for me to start my travel journal again, this time from India! We arrived 4 days ago and are currently in a coastal town called Mamallapuram. Day One/Two 3/8/09-4/8/09 We got up bright and early in the morning to catch our flight from Heathrow. We flew India Airways (v. nice) and there were no problems until we were delaye...


TJ: Silver Star Tailor

Today we were to pick up our newly tailored clothes, and get ourselves to Chennai where we would stay for the night ready to start the journey to the Andamans the following day. We had agreed to pick up our clothes early in the morning so we could catch the 11am bus to Chennai. On arrival at the shop the tailor greeted us and showed us his work. My t...


TJ: The Crocodile Sanctuary

The plan for the day was to go to the local crocodile sanctuary situated 15km north of Mamalapuram, but before we left we decided to do a bit of shopping. Mamallapuram has only one small bazaar consisting of one main strip and a maze of back streets surrounding it. The town is best known for it’s stone masonry and the streets are littered with sculptu...


TJ: The Reporters

The undercurrent was extremely strong which made it near impossible to swim on Mamallapurams coast and I was quickly worn out from constantly fighting the waves. This was Christmas day 1999 and what better way to celebrate than chilling out sunbathing on a beautiful sandy beach. Disillusioned by the sheer crapness that sunbathing has to offer we walked...