Post lunch, we booked a taxi to Mamallapuram, a city 60km away from Chennai and better known as Mahabalipuram. The drive on East Coast Road (ECR) was very smooth, undoubtedly TN roads are much better than those in Karnataka. We had a short stopover at crocodile park, a center for herpetology, which houses varieties of species of crocodiles, few snakes, tortoises and fishes. Our next stop was at the parking lot of the famous "Five Rathas" archeological site in Mahabalipuram.