Tamil Nadu Boutique Hotels Reviews and Rates

Karthkali Deepham festival

We lie in our little cell all day, trying to gain strength for the chaos we can hear building up outside all day. We leave at about four and there are people EVERYWHERE. Chaos is definitely upon us. People have been walking around the mountain all day, thousands and thousand and thousands of them, and we need to swim upstream to get to the temple …

Magnificent Mamallapuram & Tantric Tirumala

I was so excited to be here – it was like being on a laid back holiday, right on the coast. I woke up and went straight for a swim as the water was just the right temperature and very clean. I got so carried away with the joy of it, that before I knew it I'd done a hundred lengths of this 28.5m pool! By the time I’d finished, there were …

Hefrom trichy

well hello peeps been trichy for 2 days it is a very dusty city but great temple will try and download some pictures soon most of the internet cafes dont have usb sockets , anyway i sent yesterday travelling from pondicherry via villupuram to trichy local bus very packed with no space at all took 1 hr from pondy to villupuram and cost just 12Rs the …

Chill weather and French influence

Kodaikanal (21/2-24-2) Pudcucherry (25/2- 27/2) We ended up taking an Indian tour bus to Kodaikanal because it seemed to be easier and faster than the public transportation and it was nice to splurge. It was funny being on the tour bus because unlike on the public transportation, no one paid attention to us like they do on the public buses and …

Airport hell, and back to Goa.

It would seem, from looking at a map of India, that there would be numerous ways to make the relatively short journey crosswise from the large city on the east coast, Chennai, to the popular tourist destination of Goa, but there are no direct trains, buses, and certainly no direct flights. The same fuel- and time-wastin madness that possessed …

Ariyalur

State bus travelling...it takes 3 hours from Trichy …