I love Chennai! It is a larger city than Kochi and the population is much higher. The roads are pothole free with clearly painted lines. There is trash on the ground, like Kochi, but not nearly as much.
It poured two of the days that we were there, but we didn’t let that stop us. We grabbed some umbrellas, hiked up our pant legs, and went to explore.
The first night it was too late to do much so we went to the mall, iStore, and then to Sandy’s Chocolate Laboratory. You must go to Sandy’s if you are ever in Chennai. It is not on a main road and it is fairly new so your driver may not know the place, but we got there with a bit of help from Google maps. Sandy’s is just what it says a chocolate laboratory plus a deli with freshly imported meats and cheeses. We just had dessert. I had the Happy Jack which is chocolate ice cream with peanut butter. It was served in a beaker and it came with another chocolate liquid served in a test tube. The whole place was very unique.
The second day we went to Mahabalipuram located 60km outside of Chennai. Wow! This place was amazing. There are tons of huge hand carved rock sculptures that date back to 1200 years ago. Some of the sculptures had a little bit of damage from the tsunami on December 26, 2004. The tsunami went inland and on it’s way back out to sea the water took a lot of sand with it. Because of this there was another ancient sculpture uncovered. Archeologists are now working on uncovering it.

The next day we went to see the oldest temple in Chennai, Kapaleeshwarar temple. This was the largest Hindu temple I have seen so far. It was so beautiful. The paint and colors were so vibrant. After the temple we went to see the St. Thomas Cathedral.

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