UNESCO Listed 7th CE Mahabalipuram Trip with Heritage Storyteller
Overview
Heritage storytelling reveals unheard narratives and unseen places through a mesmerizing narration. This journey includes visits to 7th Century built monuments and temples, showcasing remarkable rock-cut architecture and the Shore temple.
- 📜 Insightful perspectives on History, Archaeology, Architecture, and Mythology.
- 🏛️ Optional visit to the excavated site of the Subramaniya temple, unearthed from a 2004 incident.
- 🌍 Optional exploration of natural wonders such as Krishna Butter Ball and the Sea Shell Museum.
- 🛍️ Opportunities for shopping seashells, stone sculptures, and handicrafts.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Local Guide:: Licensed and Certified Guide
- Inclusions as per package options
- Camera / Video fees, All fess for Foreigner, Anything other than inclusions.
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Shore TempleDo you know that the Shore Temple complex was named ‘Seven Pagodas’? What does it mean? One temple complex exists now and what happened to the rest? Who built the Shore temple? What’s the significance of the architecture? Is it unique?
- Arjuna’s Penance is one of the magnificent monuments of Mahabalipuram. This wonderful bas-relief dates back to the mid-seventh century. Standing tall at a height of 43 feet, the monolith was carved on the face of two huge adjoining boulders, making its length around 96 feet. The majestic structure cannot be made out in photographs, it deserves to be praised by one’s own eyes. Now, you see a stunning sculpture of a depiction of an instance in the Indian epic ‘Mahabharata’. (pass by)
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Pancha RathasPancha Rathas is a monument complex at Mahabalipuram. Pancha Rathas is an example of monolithic Indian rock-cut architecture.The ‘Ratha’ temples are the cave temples made of rocks. The rathas are regarded as the five rathas of Pandavas, the eminent characters of the Mahabharata.
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Mahabalipuram LighthouseLighthouse Next in the plan is to climb up new and old Lighthouses. They are stunning for photography and marvellous to see around from the top of them. The new lighthouse with a circular masonry tower made of natural stone was constructed in the 19th Century. Do you know that Mamallapuram was one of the oldest trading ports with foreigners and a 7th Century built old lighthouse is an evidence?
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Krishna's Butter BallKrishna Butter Ball – natural or god’s creation or human made or alien made: We will visit this amazing wonder. This monolithic granite rock found in Mahabalipuram India, is over 20 feet in height. With its width almost equal to its height, it looks spherical in some angles but not a perfect sphere. It weighs over 250 tons and miraculously stands on an extremely small, slippery area of a hill. What’s the other name for this rock ball?
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