World Heritage Site - Mahabalipurum, India
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Mahabalipurum’s Underwater Temples
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Mahabalipurum’s Underwater Temples
For hundreds of years legends told of seven temples,
yet only one stood on the shore
The legends spoke of seven temples that were so dazzling, the gods grew envious and sent a flood that submerged all but one of them, leaving the shore temple companionless…
Then a disastrous tsunamiOn December 26, 2004
stripped away the sandsand exposed the
six temples that had been underwaterfor a millennium.
Arts and Crafts from the area
include famous stone carvings
Krishna’s Butterball
Mahabalipuramis a UNESCO
World Heritage Site
In 2011 Local Flavor’s Deborah McLaren
coordinated an exploratory voluntour to
the region, connecting with the fishing villages