Madurai, India Travel Blogs

Journey to Madurai
Jul 18, 2008 (15 photos)

... .  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. Though ...

Spice girl
Dec 15, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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..
Dec 5, 2006 (8 photos)

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 Sundareswarar ...

Ancient city of Madurai
Mar 8, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 we ...

Finally leaving
Jan 10, 2008

... 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, so ...

Our First Busy Town
Mar 27, 2008 (4 photos)

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 must. ...

Madurai
Jan 28, 2009 (11 photos)

... 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
Aug 15, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

On the Road Again
Oct 18, 2006 (15 photos)

... . 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. This ...

Madurai
May 2, 2009 (35 photos)

... nous 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 l'aurore. ...

Meeting friends in Madurai
Aug 14, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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
Mar 21, 2005 (5 photos)

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 ...

Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Dec 20, 2006

9 hour overnight bus ride to Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Madurai
Feb 24, 2009 (11 photos)

... 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 ...

Madurai - Ancient heart of the south
Mar 3, 2009 (3 photos)

... rooms, only accessible to Hindus. The guards were strict and access was denied to us, despite our efforts. Madurai is one of the oldest cities in southern India and 2500 years of history can be found amongst it's streets. In the alleyways, littered with ...

Madurai, Holy Moly city !
Feb 19, 2007 (20 photos)

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
Mar 1, 2006

... 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 a ...

Madurai
Jul 8, 2007 (8 photos)

... 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 with ...

May 2, 2009 (9 photos)

Day 3 - Tanjavur - Madurai (163 km)
Jan 3, 2008

... 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 ...

Madurai for the Day
Dec 1, 2007 (5 photos)

Violet Solomon and Philip meet us at the docking station to greet us and take us to the bach "camp". Minnie Solomon is there waiting for her last radiation treatment in the morning. We are treated with a walk around the area, introducing ourselves to the ...

Pollution
Aug 15, 2006 (2 photos)

There are close to a billion people in India and this has a severe impact on the environment. I try to be as objective in this travel log as possible, and therefore I must also write about some of the less beautiful sides of India. Yes, this is not ...

Madurai
May 30, 2007 (18 photos)

... to flying and don't know that opening overhead bins is dangerous etc. I think they think they are on a train, also they are ignorant with the queues pushing and jostling (a bit Danish actually). Anyway would recommend Madurai for a two day stop over.

Trichy, encore temples galore
Feb 21, 2007 (12 photos)

Another temple stop on the Tamil road trip... However, our highlight this time was the second class train trip in packed coaches where the Indian families around us treated us so warmly and gently. One of the benefits / inconvenients of being an ...

Athens of the East
Sep 12, 2009 (11 photos)

... . We got to Madurai, checked into the hotel, ate lunch, and then went out to see some temples.  Madurai is one of the oldest cities in South India and is known as Temple City, and the destination of many Hindu pilgrims.  Due to its cultural ...

Not so Mad Madurai
Sep 30, 2005 (9 photos)

... my eyes trying to take in the 30 million stone carvings within the mere 300mx300m complex! Approximately 10,000 visitors come to Madurai everyday, but it really didn't feel that crowded. I'm afraid the photos have to wait again, you've never seen temples ...

Cows and priests and elephants, oh my!
Mar 12, 2006 (5 photos)

... decided one, possibly two, would be enough for us. Next and last on the agenda was the real reason we visited Madurai - the Meenakshi temple, dedicated to Meenakshi, a Hindu goddess well-loved for her reputation as a generous deity who gives to those ...

Temple Town
Oct 22, 2006 (6 photos)

More Adventures From India, I took a long train ride and ended up in Madurai. When I checked into the hostel, there was an elephant outside from the temple across the street having some rice and water. Are you kidding me? Just hanging out, having ...

Rameswaram to Madurai
Apr 30, 2009 (4 photos)

... nbsp; One year ago, on our Croatia trip, we saw an excellent exhibit on the Ramayana at the Royal Library in London. In Madurai we saw the Palace and the Meenakshi Temple.  The Temple was crowded, but the hall of one thousand pillars was neat to ...

Madurai
Feb 15, 2006 (4 photos)

... avoid them is useless, they can smell a tourist a mile away and NO, GO AWAY are not understood. We stayed in Madurai for 2 days, checked out the impressive local temple and upset the locals again by entering a Hindu only section where they worship their ...