Tamil Nadu – Chidambaram, Pitchavaram and Auroville

Tamil Nadu, India - 2010. We had the weekend off in the middle of the Habitat build so we visited some local attractions in the region surrounding Pondicherry including the Natraja Temple at Chidambaram (60km south of Pondicherry), the Pitchavaram mangrove forest just outside of Chidambaram and Auroville, an experimental settlement about 15km North West of Pondicherry.
Rice fields south of Pondicherry
A small village on the road to Chidambaram
On the road to Chidambaram
One of the four gopurams (towers) at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
Lord Siva in human form
Lord Siva at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
One of the four gopurams (towers) and the temple tank at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
One of the four gopurams (towers) and the temple tank at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram with the Temple Tank in the foreground
Detail on the outside of the Raja sabhai or the 1000-pillared hall
Stone carving at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
Lord Siva at the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
None of the temple pictures you see on this webpage were taken with a film camera!
Chidambaram Temple car used in festival parades
Local fishermen, Pitchavaram mangrove forest
We saw very few foreign tourists at the Pitchavaram mangrove forest. Most of the visitors were Indian.
Pitchavaram mangrove forest
Pitchavaram the second largest Mangrove forest in the world covering an area about 2,800 acres. It is made up of a number of islands interspersed by numerous…
Fishing boats, Pitchavaram mangrove forest
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