ECR, defining east coast road is a great
blessing for Chennaities and a scenic gateway to the weekend getaway. It’s
quite pleasure taking this coastal road all the way to Pondicherry and beyond, but
the most amused ride quality was quite restrain till Pondicherry and under toll
gate control, the road was maintained well and pretty neatly drawn lines and
road studs enhances the ride quality and night driving was fun (once) expose to
stunning reflectors. The emerging buildings and villas may change the scenery
from time to time, but it seems to adapting everything and breathes fresh
forever.
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| Rock painting on butterflies (click photos to enlarge) |
The ECR toll gate is one stop;
from where we get tickets to use the road has beautiful setting of garden alongside
the booths and flowering plants and date palms adorn the toll gate beside picturesque
painting stones. Erected vertically, these painting stones catch anyone's attentions while waiting to pass and during such times I used to try capturing
images on them and here are few photos on the paintings shot at different
moments.
The above one has paintings on animals and
birds; and the below was on jungle and the detail was really impressed me when zoom
enough on the painting. I find two lily ponds, snake emerging from its burrow
and the lesser golden back peck along an own peek from the tree. What more interesting
on this painting was, a saint smashing herbal medicine sitting under the tree?
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| Yellow flowers bloomed at toll gate |
14 comments:
beautifully painted murals!
Incredible art work. Thank you for showing.
Had been to Chennai but never saw this.
Nice paintings.
I never knew about the ECR, the paints are gorgeous.. I am going to knife it down in my travel book to plan a future holiday :)
Happy weekend
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secon d and third one are sooooo beautiful..totally captivating.
beautiful !
I like that forest painting - very imaginative and beautifully done! :)
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I too pass ECR 100 times. But it never occurred to me to capture this .As usual photos are mesmerizing.A poet, PAINTER, photographer what else? kalakkunga jeevan.
I've never seen anything quite like this, but the stone paintings are beautiful. They're a delightful way to beautify a toll plaza.
I have never noticed this painting before, though I go through this road often!
Love the forest painting...so many minute details are shown. Love the monkey with her baby, the expression in its face is interesting!
Thank you, now I will make it a point to check!
You have a great set of photos. I chose to follow you as I have no blogger friends in India. I do have India friends in Iowa but not on the blog.
I am happy you are getting out for these trips that you can share with us. I am going off camping tomorrow but it is the same old stuff at the same place. You always seem to find lots of "eye candy".
My computer told me to go to YouTube to see this so will try that.
The paintings are pretty and liven up the outdoors!
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