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Travel Blogs from Madurai
Happy Diwali!
Yesterday was Diwali! It is the largest festival in India and is known as the "festival of lights". After almost a full day of travel we arrived Madurai and dressed up in our best to help celebrate. I thought there would be no better reason to break out my sari that I bought in Varanassi for this occasion. It turns out that wrapping a sari is quite the ...
DDD- The Memorable Coffee I keep forgetting
... Linette from Oz and sisters Sandy & Zita
from Canada and our new guide is Santo. It's Santo's first Intrepid
trip and he's very nice but trying too hard. He took us on a massive
'orientation walk' and we didn't get back to the hotel till about 5
hours later – we were all absolutely knackered! Monday morning we
were up early again to get a private car at 6 for the 2 hour journey
to our next stop, Mamallapuram. Can't report much about ...
Either I'm "MAD OR I" must be in (...Madurai).
... s vast interior. Next time I check, we're sailing straight through the middle of an industrial-sized wind farm. Mighty turbines chop the humid air like huge propellers, powering up the nearby settlements with sustainable energy..
So Madurai... it's renowned for its massive, epic, garguantuan temple complex, dating back a millenium and a half - and still fully functional today as a beating spiritual heart for the Tamil Nadu plains.
Five enormous towers of ...
Inspired in Madurai
... eyes glued to the screen as a scantily clad Desi princess was grinding all over our roided-out hero. And I thought Persian music videos were bad.
My ears are still ringing from the Bollywood video Marathon as the bus pulls up to the outskirts of Madurai. Time to put on my negotiating cap. I walk over to the first rickshaw driver.
Two days Madurai and great temples
Madura is in the middle of South India in Tamil Nadu. We spend three nights and two full days in this most Indian city we visited so far. Here no metro construction going on as in Chennai and Calcutta. More women on motor cycles, more motor cycles, more men wearing the traditional Indian dhoti. The Samgan hotel we booked online is a good choice. We hire a car for two days touring from the hotel, with Ramachendran as our very nice and good driver. ...
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Other places to stay in Madurai
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Heritage Madurai
11,Melakkal Main Road,Kochadai, Madurai | 4 star hotelfrom $97 -
The Gateway Hotel Pasumalai Madurai
No. 40 TPK Road, Madurai | 3 star hotelfrom $80 -
Fortune Pandiyan Hotel
Race Course, Madurai | 3 star hotelfrom $4,300 -
Royal Court
No.4, West Veli Street, Madurai | 3 star hotelfrom $75 -
Hotel Germanus
28 By Pass Road, Madurai | 2 star hotelfrom $67 -
Madurai Residency
14/15 West Marret Street, Madurai | 2 star hotelfrom $48 -
Supreme Hotel
110, West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | 1 star hotelfrom $1,750 -
Hotel Sangam
Alagarkoil Road, Madurai | 3 star hotelfrom $74 -
GRT Regency
38 Madukkulam Main Rd, Palanganatham, Madurai | 3 star hotelfrom $84 -
Hotel Park Plaza
114-115 West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | 2 star hotelfrom $54 -
Hotel Chentoor
106, West Perumal Masitry Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Padmam Hotel
1, Perumal Tank West Street, Madurai | Hotelfrom $34 -
Hotel Saratha Rajans
27, Panagal Road, Madurai | Hotelfrom $38 -
Rathna Residency Hotel
109, West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Ttdc Tamil Nadu Ii
Alagar Koil Road, Madurai | Hotel -
The Golden Park
28,29 West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Madurai Ashok Itdc Hotel
Madurai | Hotel -
Prem Nivas Hotel
102, West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Elements Hostel Madurai
642, K.K. Nagar, Madurai | Hotel -
Grand Central Hotel
48 West Perumal Maistry Street, Madurai | Hotel -
K.P.S Hotel
8/9 West Marret Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Ruby Lodge
Madurai | Hotel -
President Hotel
8A, Yanaikkal Street, Madurai | Hotel -
Star Residency
No 43 & 44, Collector Office Road, Madurai | Hotelfrom $47
