Ride the Ruins Part -3 Sardas

The Sardas Fort
                      so after we loaded ourselves at mamalla we started racing towards kalpakkam , kalpakkam is also the loacation of the nuclear powerplant, anyway so we were happily gunning our engines and we came to an fork in the road to kalpakkam and headed towards that once we went into the road it was amazing it was some one and half lane road with palm trees on both side and we were thundering down this road , we stopped for some beauty shots

after the above beauty shots we headed slowly to find out where the fort was and we reached a beach and straight down was the fort some history about sardas now

Sadras (Tamil: சதுரங்கபட்டினம்) is a fortress town located on India's Coromandel Coast in Kanchipuram District, 70 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. Sadras is the anglicized form of the ancient town of Chadhuranga Pattinam.
Modern Sadras was established as part of Dutch Coromandel in the seventeenth century, and became a center for weaving superfine muslin cloth for export. The magnificent Sadras Fort, built for commercial purposes by the Dutch, is a vast compound enclosing a huge granary, stable and structures used to mount elephants (unfortunately only one of these structures survives). The fortress was raided by the British in 1818 and came under the control of the British East India Company. It is now maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India in efforts to contain further dilapidation of this great monument.The first battle between British East India Company and the Dutch started here as Battle of Sadras
In recent times, Sadras has found mention due to its proximity to the atomic power plant (Madras Atomic Power Station) and the atomic research centre (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research - IGCAR) both located at nearby Kalpakkam. The village of Sadras is sandwiched between the power plant and its township.
The Sadras Fort also contains picturesque tombs.

So we reached the fort and there were two cannons outside the fort and in my enthusiasm rode in only to be asked by the watchmen to park the bike outside and hence we all parked our bikes outside and went into the fort the watch was friendly and also was our guide for the day and he took us around the fort and we even saw a snake skin which a snake had shed recently near the tombs and from the tombs there was a building attached

thats the view inside the building were part of the celling had collapsed and this pic shows the entrance to the building and then we headed out of the graveyard and treated to this view

that shows the layout on the far corner are the granneries and the building near the tree is church and there is also a altar to behead and punish people
thats all of us inside the building

thats us on top of the building and the view from the top takes ur breath away wat u see in the distance is pristine white sand and blue water with a few fishing boats on it its jus amazing and u take a deep breath and its a gush of fresh air thats so refreshing its clears ur mind and heart after that we climbed down and put vasanth in the altar

and walked down to the last building and we were tired and there were a few benches below the tree

we rested there some time i took a small nap and we were off to our next destination ..................(more on it on next part)