We arrived very late night Feb. 12 in Mamallapuram, and awoke to a resort situated right on the Bay of Bengal, with a very nice swimming pool and easy beach access. The waters here are a little tricky, so we did not do much ocean swimming. The real attraction here is the 1000-2000 year old temples and carvings spread about this fairly small town. We were also in the south for the first time our whole trip, so the language changed (from Hindi to Tamil), and, especially, the climate. Mamallapuram is in the tropics, quite hot for us Seattle-ites. We found it was best to do our sight seeing early in the morning or late in the afternoon, which is when we visited "Arjuna's Penance" (morning), one of the most amazing bas relief carvings I have ever seen. There are several other photos of this town on our photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/kasbhai/2008IndiaPics. You may need to use the "slideshow" function to see all the pics.
This was the first place in which we were really in the tourist ghetto as well, which meant that we were also eating western food fairly often including the excellent coffee served at the French run "Nautilus" cafe.
Sonia absolutely loves swimming, to the point where she told us, as we were eating lunch at our poolside restaurant one day, the she was "demented" when she actually meant to say she was distracted.
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