Madurai Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We rolled into Madurai Junction at 8am the following morning, refreshed from a suprisingly comfortable night sleep. Our first train journey had exceeded our expectations. Blankets and pillows were provided, toilets were more than acceptable and the smooth steady sway of the carriage sent us of to a peacful sleep with the aid of only one sleeping...

Unfortunately the temple was under renovation and so the edge was taken off its impressiveness, still the structure is huge and imposes over the rest of the city. The external areas not covered in scaffolding showed intricate carvings, too numerous to count, stacked layer on layer into the sky each layer smaller than the previous, like a 500 lay...

Hi again everyone, we're actually in chennai at the moment but I thought Id just fill you inn on the couple of places that we've been between kerala and now, seeing as its been a while! . So we left Kerala on the train from Alleppey and arrived in Madurai on the morning of the 25th, where we were planning to meet Lewis (another friend from schoo...

Oh so I got back to madurai just in time for the Pongal celebrations late at night. I checked in to my hotel and went to sleep only to be woken a couple of hours later by the noise of religious fever in the streets! Big drums banging and people dancing and celebrating. A look into the outside world delivered hundreds of men dresssed in black and...

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 locals, playing cricket, and keeping our jaws from dropping to low.

Another day, another temple, the last of the temple towns, here we saw the Dravidian Sri Meenakshi Temple. As the temple appeared to be the only thing worth seeing here we only stayed for a few hours before leaving Tamil Nadu for the beaches of Kerala.

Last thursday we headed out of Bangalore on the train to Chennai and on to Pondicherry. THe sights were beautiful along the way. I enjoyed seeing much more greenery and lush paddy (rice) fields. Our stayed in Pondicherry for 4 days, hoping to find some tsunami volunteer work. Our lead did not pan out as the woman was going to the Adaman Islands ...