Mamallapuram

Mamallapuram is one of the few tourist hubs in Tamil Nadu. At the same time it is the center of ancient rock carvings. All kinds of souvenirs made of stone, that tourist can buy all over India, come mostly from this place.














Mamallapuram is full of rock sculpture shops and constant voices of hammering






































Statue of monkeys, cleaning from fleas


As Mamallapuram is also on the coast and the beach here is much more narrower than in Chennai, the tsunami in 2004 put much bigger pressure on this little town. It is still possible to see some traces of destroyed houses near the beach. The only building that stayed untouched on the beach zone was Shore Temple.












Shore temple that survived the tsunami
















Branko trying to keep the boulder from falling

























Indian tourists



Monkeys were once again one of the biggest attraction of the place.



























































Monkeys are clever, they know how to open a stolen water bottle, but they still have to learn how to drink from it without spilling most of it on the ground




















Such a pity we did not take the picture from lower position, so that the hand of the man would have been little more higher :-)))














Lighthouse