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Chennai: Mahabalipuram Tour with Lunch
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Chennai: Mahabalipuram Tour with Lunch

By 5 Senses Tours
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Free cancellation available
Price is £119 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • Marvel at Shore Temple, an 8th-century wonder chronicled by Marco Polo
  • Explore Arjuna’s Penance
  • Visit Pancha Rathas, also known as the "5 Chariots"

Activity location

    • Chennai
    • Chennai, Chennai, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Chennai
    • Chennai, Chennai, India

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Chennai: Mahabalipuram Tour with Lunch
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h7h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 07:30
Price details
£119.31 x 1 Adult£119.31

Total
Price is £119.31
Until Fri, 1 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's includedWhat's included Guide
  • What's includedWhat's included Entrance charges
  • What's includedWhat's included Lunch
  • What's includedWhat's included Private car
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDrinks

Know before you book

  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Your experience will begin as you are collected from your accommodation at 7:30AM, at which point you will make your way to Mahabalipuram. Once having arrived, Panch Rathas is your first destination. These are rock-cut monolith structures which are dedicated to the lead cast of the Mahabharata epic. They are dedicated to Draupadi, Arjuna, Nakul-Sahadeva, Bhima and Yudhister. There is also a sculpture of an elephant next to the ratha of Nakul-Sahadeva.

Next in the itinerary is Arjuna’s Penance, a 100-foot by 45-foot open-air rock relief where an entire masterpiece from the Mahabharata epic has been carved. The River Ganga is at the centre of the panel, and is surrounded by divine beings, hunters, animals, birds, and trees belonging to the Himalayan ranges.

The next stop is to Krishna’s Butterball, a 5-meter ball-shaped boulder which is perched precariously on a slope and seems to defy Newton’s laws of gravity. Next up, the magnificent Shore Temple beckons you. This 8th-century structural temple is made of granite, and served as a beacon for seafarers of the time. Legend says that this was a part of a complex of 7 temples dotted along the sea, and the legendary traveller Marco Polo also mentioned Mahabalipuram in his memoirs, referring to it as the “City of 7 Pagodas”. Following this final stop, you will travel back to Chennai where you will be dropped off back to your hotel by 3:30PM.

Location

Activity location

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    • Chennai
    • Chennai, Chennai, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Chennai
    • Chennai, Chennai, India