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Tiruvannamalai
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Overview
There are temple towns, there are mountain towns, and then there are temple-mountain towns where God appears as a phallus of fire. Welcome to Tiruvannamalai, one of Tamil Nadu's holiest destinations.
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Tiruvannamalai
This 10-hectare temple is one of India's largest. Its oldest parts date to the 9th century, but the site was a place of worship long before that. Four鈥�
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Tiruvannamalai
With three separate hilltop citadels and a 6km perimeter of cliffs and thick walls, the ruins of enormous Gingee Fort rise out of the Tamil plain, 37km鈥�
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Tiruvannamalai
This 800m-high extinct volcano dominates Tiruvannamalai 鈥� and local conceptions of the element of fire, which supposedly finds its sacred abode in鈥�
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