  1 Hotel Parisutham on the canal |
 2 The hotel swimming pool |
 3 Tourist in pool |
 4 The Royal Palace, a part of which is still inhabited by the former royal family |
 5 Our wonderful guide, S. Raja, and Siv |
 6 Elephants in palace courtyard |
 7 The palace tower |
 8 Lotus on ceiling dome inside the palace tower |
 9 Staircase in the tower |
 10 Upstairs in the palace tower |
 11 View of the Brihadishwara Temple from the palace tower |
 12 View of the palace courtyard from the tower |
 13 Schoolboys playing cricket on the maidan |
 14 Schoolboys |
 15 For the Friday-evening Nandi festival, the statue of Nandi (Vishnu's vehicle, a bull) is anointed with water... |
 16 ... then with sandal paste ... |
 17 and then washed with more water |
 18 Dressing Nandi again |
 19 Raja and John |
 20 This kid was not much interested in Nandi |
 21 He's found a girlfriend |
 22 Nandi's shrine (middle) and entrance gate in the evening after the Nandi festival |
 23 Moon over Tanjore |
 24 The base of the temple vimana (tower) |
 25 The vimana is almost 61m high, the highest in India when it was built in 1010 |
 26 A kite flies by |
 27 We met Raja's daughters at the temple |
 28 Moon over the gopuram |
 29 Bharatanatyam dancers at the hotel |
 30 The Brihadishwara Temple in the morning |
 31 The outer wall is constructed like a fortress, complete with moat |
 32 The temple elephant |
 33 Raja holding Siv so she won't panic as the elephant blows on her |
 34 The temple wall, gopuram and vimana |
 35 Tourist descending the viewpoint ramp |
 36 Relief of the marriage of Shiva and Parvati |
 37 One of the temple guardians |
 38 The vimana and the pavilion holding Nandi |
 39 Nandi chez lui - he seems to be licking his nose with his tongue, just like a real bull |
 40 Roof of a side pavilion |
 41 Roof of a side pavilion |
 42 Entrance to the temple |
 43 A yalli, a mythical animal, a chimera |
 44 Roof of temple entrance |
 45 Goddess in lotus position |
 46 Scenes from the life of Bhudda |
 47 Gallery around the temple wall |
 48 Gallery around the temple wall |
 49 Siv and a young friend |
 50 The nine "planets", including the sun and moon |
 51 A lingam and Ganesh on a horse |
 52 Water spout in the form of an elephant's trunk |
 53 Gallery and elephant staircase |
 54 Elephant staircase |
 55 Half horse, half bird |
 56 Leaving through the gopuram |
 57 Chatting (in English) with some young ladies studying to become teachers |
 58 Colorful fabrics for saris |
 59 After taking this picture in a store selling lungis, they insisted also on taking a pirture of ... |
 60 ... the boss, of course |
 61 Cooking-ware wallah |
 62 Nice moustache |
 63 This guy stopped me in the street to take his picture with his child |
 64 Very friendly people |
 65 Tanjore street scene |
 66 Ads for the birthday of Jayalitha, a Tamil Nadu politican and former movie star (among other things) |
 67 Bougainvillea |
 68 Shopping for a salwar kameez |
 69 Raja and robot |
 70 Fabric wallahs |
 71 Salespeople |
 72 Tanjore by night |
 73 Moon over a small temple we visited in the evening |
 74 Young men studying Hindu part singing -- very nice |
 75 A family of tailors |
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