Next we visited the Madras Crocodile bank. After yesterday's disappointing zoo visit I was expecting to see a small tank with 2 crocs in it but it was actually excellent. There are many varieties of crocodiles there with some pens housing over 50 crocodiles. The mugger/marsh crocodiles came 'running' when the keeper appeared with a pail of meat...
not a crocodile ....
turtle
"viewing cave" aquarium for gharial crodile
Siamese Crocodile
playing peek-a-boo
Young caiman crocodiles
More mugger/marsh crocodiles
We visited the small coastal town of Mahabalipuram. Here I had wanted to see the temples and other things carved out of single pieces of granite. However we were confronted with a 250 rupee per person entry price (versus 10 rupee for indians) so we decided to spend the money on lunch instead... On the way to lunch we actually saw one of the carved temples (Anjali's pennance) and a huge boulder nicknamed "Krishna's butter ball", and Dave bought some postcards to fill in the rest. After lunch we went in to a small tailor's shop where I had two dupetta scarfs for myself and one for each of the girls made on the spot with the fabrics of our choosing.
web photos from the Archeological Survey of India
Krishna's butter ball
Tasty spicy chicken for me ..
Natasha showing off her new dupetta scarf
At night we walked through the streets of Velachery in search of bangles; I settled on some hinged ones as they are easy to put on and take off.
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