India 2006

The adventures of the Magnusson/Jansdotter family in southern India, June to August, 2006 (MONSOON TIME!!!)

Monday, August 07, 2006

Rock Temple Tour



Did the rock temple tour today. It was hot, maybe around +35-40 degrees celsius, and even the hawkers were pretty low key. As far as I understand, most of the rock temples and other stuff was made for advertising purposes around the end of the 6th century AD. The sculptors carved up most of the rock surfaces around town to display their skills to temple building buyers. Even today Mahallipuram is producing art for Hindu temples all over the world. Went to a French restaurant for lunch. Just a little swimming today. Too much sun yesterday made us all red like boiled crayfish (it's the crayfish season in Sweden so it's only fitting).

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