18th February 2012

After overnight stop at Thanjavur we visited what we thought was to be a local art gallery, but was more a museum collection of stone and brass statues. We were nonplussed at our driver's description that it was an "artificial temple" until we realised it was not open for worship, but full of the most incredible statues and curios dating from the 10th to 17th century.


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We then visited a local craftsmanship house where his family have been making bronze statues using the lost wax technique for nine generations.


Then another temple with the hottest roof tiles imaginable!!!


Finally we arrived at our hotel called Visalam which used to be wend by a rich merchant who then ave the house as a dowry for his daughter. It became too much for the we mainly to upkeep and the ceded to lease it to this hotel chain who specialise in providing luxury accommodation. It felt like you were stepping back into colonial India.

















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