Pictures: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns tourist guide, takes Chinese President Xi Jinping around Mahabalipuram in Chennai

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Pictures: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns tourist guide, takes Chinese President Xi Jinping around Mahabalipuram in Chennai

Modi welcomes Xi at Mahabalipuram for the second informal India-China Summit

Published: October 11, 2019 17:08 Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor

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Narendra Modi with Xi Jinping — Modi with Xi Jinping, in Mahabalipuram. Not many Presidents and Prime Ministers are fortunate enough to have another country's Prime Minister to have as a tourist guide! But Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was fortunate as he had India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his guide, explaining in great detail about the architecture and significance of the three important rock-cut monuments in the famed sculpture town Mahabalipuram, about 60 km from Chennai. Image Credit: PTI

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Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Mahabalipuram. Located on the Coromandel coast, Mahabalipuram, sporting the UNESCO World Heritage Site tag, is famous for its stone carvings and rock cut temples of the Pallava dynasty period. A majority of the monuments at this town were built during the period of Narasimhavarman-I during the period 630-670 AD. Image Credit: PTI

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Modi shakes hands with Xi Jinping, in Mahabalipuram. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) monuments in Mahabalipuram could be divided into monoliths - free standing temples cut out of solid rocks, caves - excavated out of hills and used as temples, temples - built up masonry temples, sculptured scenes - carved on hill edges, and miscellaneous edifices. Image Credit: PTI

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Narendra Modi shakes hands with Xi Jinping, in Mahabalipuram. Image Credit: PTI

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