Hy Local Guides, 
For all Monumentalists and Heritage Explorers, today marks an important day as World Heritage Day and International Day for Monuments and Sites focused on April 18th. Check out about Heritage Treasures Day.
These both days mark and bring awareness to protect natural heritage, culture and monuments. This day also points to protection and preservation of these important sites and heritage. This day came to be in 1982, announced by the International Council on Monuments and Sites, which got officially placed in 1983 by UNESCO.
Each year on April 18th, Archeological Survey of India (ASI) grants Free Entry to every monument and heritage site under ASI across India. Tell us how your country celebrates this Day?
How can we as a Local Guide celebrate this Day?
- Visit Local Monument or heritage site. Leave reviews about Accessibility
, visiting hours 
, parking space 
, equipment allowed 
, etc on Google Maps. - Share your traveling experiences
and how you came to know about the monument or sites as a post! - Creating a photo🖼️/review✍️/experience🌟/meet-up Challenge to have local guides participate. For example : #MonumentsthroughLocalGuides.
- Fun Idea
- Click a photo 
of you and monument in behind with the Local Guides Anniversary Photo Booth and share your experiences with the photo. - You can also share your Maps Lists of local Historical Monuments with other fellow Local Guides, friends or families. Must Visit Historical sites or museums in Trivandrum.
Rock Cut Cave temple, situated near the Vizhinjam Harbour. I stumbled upon this monument when searching another museum in Vizhinjam on Google Maps. On the left in the photo, Shiva in Tripurantakara form and right unfinished Shiva in Nataraj form with unfinished Parvathi. For more detailed photo, please check in the review. These are from Ay Dynasty, where Ays kings ruled Southern Kerala. Vizhinjam was said to be covered with Rocks during the making period and this monument now remains as a memory. This monument is also said to be the earliest rock cut temple discovered in Kerala.
Accessible Entrance into the temple. Free Entry into the monument throughout the year with free of cost pooja on special occasions.
Share your local Heritage or Monument sites which have cultural importance. You can also share monuments or heritage sites you visited.
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