Spend a morning trekking to the most important cave in South India. The cave is situated on Ambukuthy Malai, where legend has it, Lord Rama split the summit of the hill with a well aimed arrow shot, (ambu= arrow, kuthy=hit), creating a huge rift - the Edakkal Cave. Explore engravings dating back to the New Stone Age (2500 B.C.) The rock wall contains some interesting carvings, which represent human and animal figures and objects of human use and symbols. These carvings speak of a highly civilized people of a pre-historic age and are of considerable archaeological and anthropological interest.
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