Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Moonrakers
(34 Othavadai St; mains ?100-300; 10am-11.30pm)
You're likely to end up here at some stage; it's
the sort of place that dominates the backpacker-ghetto streetscape. The food won't win
any prizes but it's OK, and the three floors of tables keep pretty busy. For a change of
scene try the same owners'
Blue Elephant
MULTICUISINE
$$
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most identical food and nicer decor.
Water's Edge Cafe
(Radisson Blu Resort Temple Bay, 57 Kovalam Rd; mains ?250-700; 24hr)
Offers everything from
American breakfast to lamb goulash and Indian veg dishes. Also in the Radisson is the
Wharf
(mains ?550-2000;
MULTICUISINE
$$$
noon-3pm & 7-11pm)
, a gourmet multicuisine seaside restaurant.
Shopping
The roar of electric stone-grinders has replaced the tink-tink of chisels in Mamallapuram's
stone-carving workshops, enabling them to turn out ever more granite sculptures of vary-
ing quality, from ?100 pendants to a ?400,000 Ganesh that needs to be lifted with a crane.
There are also some good art galleries, tailors and antique shops here. For clothes, we re-
and expensive but beautiful curios culled from local homes, along with quality new sculp-
tures, at
Southern Arts & Crafts
27443675;
www.southernarts.in
; 72 East Raja St;
MAP
9am-7.30pm)
.
9am-9pm)
has a decent range of
Apollo Bookshop
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(89 Fishermen's Colony;
MAP
books in several languages to sell and swap.
Information
Head to East Raja St for ATMs.
8am-9.30pm)
Welcome spacious conditions.
Hi Tech Net-Centre
(Othavadai St; internet per hr ?30;
9.30am-7pm Mon-Sat)
Currency exchange.
Ruby Forex
(East Raja St;
24hr)
Recommended by travellers.
Suradeep Hospital
(
27442448; 15 Thirukula St;
10am-5.45pm Mon-Fri)
Quite helpful and friendly.
Tourist Office
(
27442232; Kovalam Rd;
