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Madurai Slideshow
Top Hotels in Madurai
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Heritance Madurai
160 reviews -
Taj Garden Retreat Madurai
176 reviews
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Fortune Pandiyan Madurai
63 reviews -
Grt Regency Madurai
160 reviews
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Hotel Germanus Madurai
47 reviews
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Royal Court Madurai
57 reviews
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The Madurai Residency
157 reviews
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Hotel Supreme Madurai
58 reviews -
Sangam Madurai
22 reviews
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Taj Garden Retreat Hotel Madurai
177 reviews
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Parsons Court Madurai
13 reviews
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Abinaya Lodge Madurai
2 reviews -
Rathna Residency Hotel Madurai
13 reviews -
Elements Hostel Madurai
4 reviews
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Saratha Ranjans Hotel Madurai
4 reviews
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Ruby Lodge Madurai
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K.P.S Hotel Madurai
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Madurai Ashok Itdc Hotel
6 reviews
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Hotel Chentoor Madurai
27 reviews
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Grand Central Hotel Madurai
1 review
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Hotel Park Plaza Madurai
45 reviews
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Ttdc Tamil Nadu Ii Madurai
6 reviews
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The Golden Park Madurai
6 reviews
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Madura Park Inn Madurai
160 reviews
Madurai
Travel Blogs from Madurai, India
Journey to Madurai
This is a top pick! ... viewing. It really makes me uncomfortable to have human beings paraded in such a fashion. But eventually we made it to Madurai! A medium sized city (3 million!) the smog and pollution alone were astounding, as was the human mass of the place. ...
Spice girl
This is a top pick! ... as a hustle-and-bustle shit hall. The very holly temple definitely needed a paint job. All this is forgiven however, for Madurai is home to the best veggie fast food restaurant in the world! By now, I've collected a solid proof (on my behind) that ...
Manic Madurai..
This is a top pick! Greetings once again from Southern India. This time from Madurai. Madurai is one of the oldest cities of India, with a history dating all the way back to the pre Christian era. The entire city of Madurai, is built around the Sri Meenakshi ...
Ancient city of Madurai
This is a top pick! ... in Asia - Madurai, home of the impressive Sri Meenakshi Temple with its numerous gopuras (towers) rising above the city landscape. Madurai is deservably popular with tourists, both Indian and western. The dusty city is cleaner than other parts of India ...
Finally leaving
This is a top pick! ... the cheapskate it is also free to enter, and the people running it are friendly and polite. A recommended visit to anyone in Madurai. On the way back to the Famous Meenakshi temple, i felt the stomach cramps return, ...
Our First Busy Town
This is a top pick! After another 4 hour bus ride we got to Madurai. The biggest town so far with over a Million inhabitants, we found it to be pretty stressful, loud and annoying. But the Sri Meenakshi Temple which is the highlight of a visit is an absolute ...
Madurai
... bus journey back the next day was equally as perilous and vomit inducing (well no-one actually threw up) and we were back in Madurai, where Brownie and I spent the night of the 26th. . That evening some chap brought us to the roof of his linen shop and ...
Independence Day
... Indians by putting an Indian flag on our clothes. Because of our messed-up plans we get up real early and take a bus to Madurai centre. The Indian mobile system is a very strange one. You don't just buy talktime, you also must buy validity. So the sim ...
Temples, temples, temples.
... orange. Eagles flew above us as we ate, although what they were hunting in the concrete jungle is anyones guess. The skyline of Madurai is dominated by four 70 meter high temples, set in a square, intricately carved and painted brightly. We walked the 10 ...
On the Road Again
... heat. It has been mostly overcast in the south and it has managed to rain hard for a good half hour each day. In Madurai we visited the Thirmalai Naick Palace, built in 1636, where we could see the influence of Italian, Islamic and Indian architecture. ...
Madurai
... avons parlé qlq heures de tout et de rien; de religion, politique, commerce, bref un gars gentil. Nous sommes arrivés a Madurai de bien bonne heure vers 5h30. Apres un petit the Masala qui requinque, nous allons visiter le temple Dravidien a ...
Meeting friends in Madurai
... HC member who we contacted and who would help us around Madurai. He drove us with his jeep to his office outside of Madurai where we could spend the night. Aloysis (or better : Daniel) runs an NGO (non-governmental organization)that deals with some of ...
Madurai
Madurai is a big city that we only briefly enjoyed. We stayed at a hotel close to the train station, so we could easily make our getaway to Theni. No surprise, it is a big city with lots of traffic and people everywhere. We took refuge in the rooftop ...
Temple Fort Rock
... food around the tomb. In the evening, Claudia checked the internet to find out if there is any alternative means of transport from Madurai to Quillon, and she came up with one solution. There is a train that leaves at 3 pm and arrives after midnight ...
Templos y algo mas...
... no nos sentimos culpables ya que nosotras si habiamos pagado nuestros boletos, aunque fueran de otra empresa ; ) Asi que finalemente llegamos a Madurai por la noche, buscamos donde dormir y aqui era todo bastante caro, asi que decidimos ir a un hotel que ...
Madurai
... goats everywhere! We've splashed out on a AC room at Hotel Supreme. The AC is great as it's 36 degrees outside. Madurai is brilliant! It's a big busy city, 1.9 million people and the main attraction is the Sri Meenashi Temple. It's ...
Stick no bills here
... and quickly flooded the courtyard and soaked us nearly completely. We're now in the city of Trichy, 2 hours north of Madurai where, thanks to a rather large wedding claiming all the budget accomodations, we are enjoying a couple of days in somewhat ...
Meenakshi Temple
Reached Madurai with slightly more sore bums. We were so glad when we reached our hotel. We booked in a nice place but were really pleased as we got an upgrade (our standard email, copied from bhaiya, is not much use in most of the hotels we've ...
Aug 10, 2011
Madurai, Holy Moly city !
Have you guessed yet ? The star attraction in Madurai is the gigantic and much revered Menakshee temple. Now, Madurai was the first leg of an extensive temple tour around Tamil Nadu that drove Mike to the edge of insanity and Yasmin to the ...
Madurai
... the train, two nights and two days, with a brief stop in Madras to book more trains, and we finally made it to Madurai last night. Although feeling a little tired, we went to the Sri Meenkesh temple this morning,one of the most famous in India. It's ...
Madurai
... trip to the Sri Meenakshi temple complex, PHOTO_ID_R=p7070794.jpg] the real reason that people go to Madurai. I should note that the city, like many in India, is surprisingly large with a population of over 1 milliion. The temple is a massive complex ...
Tea, Temples and Thalis
... first we have a go about the French messing up the language in Pondicherry and now it seems that the Germans messed up the Madurai temple - in 1995 a "pot" of German hippies staged a smoke in in the temple's inner sanctum and since then us non Hindus ...
Politics
Wherever you go in Tamil Nadu, you cannot escape from politics. Now before continuing I would like to stress that the following impressions are written by an ignorant foreigner who knows only the basics about Indian history and therefore please do not be ...
Day 3 - Tanjavur - Madurai (163 km)
... now and then. along the way we saw great country sides, farm and seemingly sustainable communities. the drive in to madurai was crazy. big town with 1.2 million people and lots of roads, working traffic lights, traffic policemen and relatively ...
6th Stop - Finally at the Hotel in Madurai
... actually I was forewarned by the driver, when you call for room service in Madurai, these guys do not knock on the door and they would straight away open the door and come in. Therefore, when you stay in Madurai, make sure your room door is always locked. ...
5th Stop - Thiruparangkundram Murugan
... by the Pandiyas. But somehow He managed to reach Bouthiramanikkapattanam and conveyed the message of Thiuppandiyan's invasion back to Madurai. Hazrat Sulthan Syed Ibrahim Badusha was saddened by this and sent a large troop towards madurai. Before the ...
månadsrapport
En liten månadsrapport, skriven för några veckor sedan men har inte lagt upp den förrän nu: Jag har nu varit i Indien och iväg från tryggheten i Nacka i mer än 1 månad. Jag fick en idé om att utvärdera varje månad, dels för mig själv och ...