November 15, 2007
Having both survived a few weeks of severe travel weariness, we're now enjoying ourselves in Mamallapuram. It's a lovely little village on the southeast coast in Tamil Nadu, famous for two temples and a large-ish hill area of rock cuttings, all from mid to late 600 and early 700 AD. If you come, we enjoyed the rock cuttings on the hill more than the temples, which is handy if you're on a budget because the hill area is free while the temples cost a whopping Rs 250 per person (just over $6). The temples are nice, but they're pretty degraded and you can see most of the interesting stuff from the beach and the road.
But besides neat rock cuttings, we've also been enjoying drop-in yoga classes from Solaman at Sakthi Yoga. It's so nice to do yoga, again. Although it means we've also been wandering around town occasionally groaning because our hip flexors are sore, but that's a small price to pay for a fun class.
Tomorrow we leave for Chenni, formerly known as Madras, to catch an overnight bus to Hyderabad to meet up with Uma. Not content to spoil us, she's now recruited her parents. We can't wait!
