November
19
/ 2020
In southern India, the journey from Puducherry to Chennai is without question one of the most pleasurable travel experiences to be found in all of south Asia. The biggest highlight of this trip lies in the scattered ruins of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to the remnants of a once-mighty empire that influenced the Indian psyche and much of South-East Asia. All the Mahabalipuram structures are the work of the Pallava dynasty (275 AD to 897 AD), who started temple building with rock-cut structures and then moved on to individual temple buildings. The Pallava dynasty created the architectural style that has made south Indian temple architecture so unique and famous around the world
