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Even though i went to Mumbai on Tuesday but i couldn't feel the Mumbai. Since i landed in mubai and i took the taxi and slept till my Hotel. So i couldn't check anything about Mumbai. I am staying at Navi Mumbai, it is very far from the Central mubai or Heart of Mumbai.
I was having very tight work @ the client place, fairly i came out of the office. My client Naveen and me planned to check out Gateway of India, since he also never went to Gateway of India.
The day is very cloudy and about to rain like of condition. we prayed the god to not rain like any other mumbaiker's pray. it was raining like hell everyday. We started from my Hotel @ Vashi, we took the Auto to Railway station. In Mumbai autowala's are not cheaters like in our own city Chennai. I hope that it will be true in Chennai also in coming year.
From Vashi to VT(Vitoria Terminals) is around 1:20 hours train journey. there were around 8 to 10 station in between. From there we took the Taxi, since there are no Auto's are available @ VT. Taxi rates are also very cheap and less than what our autowala's used to ask for.
We reached Gateway the most known landmark for Tamilians from Films(offcourse from Baatcha and Nayagan..) at 3:00 PM. we had Maharastra spl 'Vada Pave'. it was tasty and i had two of them. Now We don't know what to do. There were ppl are going in ferry into sea to see something. WE thought of checking what was that. the man in the ferry told us that it was going to Some eleophanta cave which cost 120 per person. I thought that they were cheating, But Naveen told that we should check out what was that. we payed 240 and sit on the ferry.
There are some navy ships are there in that area so nobody should take the photographs of ship. Ferry man made sure that nobody was taking photographs. after 20 minutes of travel it went into the middle of the sea and we are losing the patients since we thought it should be around 15 to 20 minutes traveling. there are so many huge ships are mounted in the sea. finally after 1:20 minutes travel we reached the Elephant Cave. It was an island located in Arabic sea. But it was an awesome and unexpected trip.
we were told that the island will look like a Elephant in ariel view. Still we don't know what was in store for us.after climbing around another 1 kilometer in Hills we reached the place and now we know that it was an Cave temples which is dating from 1400 years. All of the temples are damaged or unfinished. The Cave temples are resempling pallava's temple design which is there in Mahapalipuram. All are incomplete temples for lord shiva.
Since we started very late we couldn't see more cave temples which is located in second level of the Hill. We decided to come back again and to check the Canon Hills which is there in second level of Temples located in the same Hill.
I read the history board which is there in that place which tells about Pulikasi II. Immediately i remembered Vadivelu. What is the connection between Pulikasi and Maharastra Temples. Is he not a Tamil King? Or did he capture those places?
