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Mahabalipuram Trip with Archaeologist
Mahabalipuram Trip with Archaeologist
Mahabalipuram Trip with Archaeologist
Mahabalipuram Trip with Archaeologist
Mahabalipuram Trip with Archaeologist

UNESCO Listed 7th Century Mahabalipuram Trip

By KeyTerns
Free cancellation available
Price is £33 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 6h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • Mesmerising narration by a Heritage Storyteller, unheard stories, unseen places.
  • Perspectives covering History, Archaeological, Architecture & Mythological
  • Visiting 7th Century Built monuments & temples – Rock-cut architecture, Shore temple, Lighthouse,
  • Walking around 2004 incident unearthed 2000 years old Subramaniya temple excavated site (Optional)
  • Looking at wonders of nature – Krishna Butter Ball, Sea Shell Museum (Optional)
  • Shopping seashells, stone sculptures and handicrafts

Activity location

  • Tiger Cave
    • 603104, Mahabalipuram, India, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Mahabalipuram Shore Temple
    • Beach Road
    • 603104, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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3 Hours Trip With Local Guide in English
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • Opening hours: Fri 07:00-17:00
  • English

Certified Guide:: Trip will be moderated by a Certified & Licensed Guide. This does NOT include Transport. Please choose other Cab option.

Language options: English
Price details
£33.23 x 1 Adult£33.23
Total
Price is £33.23
Heritage Story Teller Car Meal in English
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • Opening hours: Fri 07:00-17:30
  • English

Heritage Storyteller narration: - 4 dimensional curation (Archaeological, Architectural, Historical and Mythological)
Indian Meal & Tender coconut: - South India Veg Fine-dine meal in a heritage restaurant

  • Tender Coconut or Coffee or Tea
    AC Vehicle
    Can do early morning: We can start early in the morning and finish off before the day is very hot
    Pickup included
Language options: English
Price details
£180.39 x 1 Adult£180.39
Total
Price is £180.39
Local Guide with Cab in English
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • Opening hours: Fri 07:00-17:00
  • English

Local Guide:: Licensed and Certified Guide
AC Vehicle
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
£137.67 x 1 Adult£137.67
Total
Price is £137.67

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedInclusions as per package options
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedCamera / Video fees, All fess for Foreigner, Anything other than inclusions.

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Tiger Cave
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Tiger Cave: Our trip starts with the visit to Tiger Cave, a fine rock-cut monument complex. It gets its name from the carvings of the tiger heads on the mouth of a cave which forms a part of the complex. Curator may pose a question and answer. Is it a sculpture of Tigers or something else? Why was ‘so called’ ‘tiger cave’ built? Is it incomplete? Do you see two elephant heads and what could they have been? Do you see one Lingam with three different design it is and what do they mean? Do you a nice storyboard sculpture where ‘Asura’ is indicating to stop the attack while the Goddess is chasing him and what’s the storey?
Shore Temple
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Shore temple Do you know that Shore Temple complex was named as ‘Seven Pagodas’? What does it mean and where are the rest of the temples? Who build the Shore temple? What’s the significance of the architecture? Is it unique?
Arjuna's Penance
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Arjuna’s Penance is one of the magnificent monuments of Mahabalipuram. This wonderful bas air 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’.
Pancha Rathas
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Pancha Rathas. Pancha Rathas is a monument complex at Mahabalipuram. Pancha Rathas is an example of monolithic Indian rock-cut architecture.The ‘Ratha’ temples are the cave temple made of rocks. The rathas are regarded as the five rathas of Pandavas, the eminent characters of the Mahabharata.
Mahabalipuram Lighthouse
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Lighthouse 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 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?
Krishna's Butter Ball
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Krishna 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 is looks spherical in some angles but not a perfect sphere. It weighs over 250 tonnes and miraculously stands on an extremely small, slippery area of a hill. What’s the other name for this rock ball?

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESTiger Cave
    • 603104, Mahabalipuram, India, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEMahabalipuram Shore Temple
    • Beach Road
    • 603104, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India

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