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John Boetes and his Universal Peace Park
John Boetes, 67, a Dutch artist is walking by the beach of Mamallapuram heading towards his usual breakfast place (Ideal Beach Resort) which is more than 5KM away from his workshop. As any ang-moes will normally do, he will greet people morning and even more so when he is such a prominent ang-mo figures in the town of Mamallapuram.
He was talking to us and checking where are we come from and later we're found out that the reason why he approached us was due to the fact that we are carry some complex looking, big cameras. He taken out a piece of paper from this regular maroon color pouch and telling us that he has a workshop in town and wanted us to visit and our first impression was he is going to sell us something.
He handled us a photocopy of The Hindu article featuring him & his weighty mission as described by the writer. We didn't read the article until we're done with the sunrise photo shooting and we're still aren't sure whether he is some kind of con men that we always run into when we're on trip.
After getting our moped renting from Moonrakers Restaurant, we were hitting out to 5 Rathas and we suddenly remember John's invitation to his workshop and we vaguely remember he said after 5 Rathas, go further straight and turn into first right junction, go further and soon we will see a different workshop on our left hand side. The different is because you don't see the workshop making the regular Hindus idols or the Ganesha, but you're see Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand and many more non-Hindu goddess kind of sculptures.
So, we went and we were truly surprise that he really didn't mean to con us to visit his workshop and he even informed one of his supervisors to host us if he ever sees 2 Chinese visit the workshop with big cameras.
PANORAMIC VIEW
Shore Temple
Tastes good AND looks good !!
Five Rathas
