On the best approach to Mahabalipuram Beach is Dakshinachitra, 28 km from Chennai, a legacy space with shows and workshops of human expressions and specialties including customary home structural planning and art and crafts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Different places worth a visit while on a visit to the shoreline incorporate the crocodile farm where around 5000 crocodiles of six various species, alligators and different reptiles are reared in bondage, kept in open, marshy areas, snake venom extracting center and a school of art and sculpture.
Department of Tourism, Government of Tamil Nadu arrange a Dance Festival yearly at Mahabalipuram amid January February. The celebration which goes on for a month has examples of dances like Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak, Kathakali.as well as folk dances are performed in an open air theatre against the wonderful scenery of the Pallava rock Sculpture.
