Picture a landscape undulating with giant, lunar-like orange boulders and hilltops, ribboned below with bright green belts of banana plantations and towering palm groves. A river runs through it and a columned bridge connects the two banks, on which rise fabulously decorated palaces, temples, markets and auditoriums of carved granite and teak wood. Covering more than 16 square miles, this colorful Hindu kingdom in Southern India, once famous for its gold, pearls, emeralds and diamonds, was the s...
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