Madurai Lodges - Reviews and Rates

The drive to Madurai was on good roads with few vehicles as there is a strike affecting supply of diesel, but even so the long drive was broken up with a bush camp along the way. A large 3 sided compound was noticed, and the occupiers permission we set up camp, well most of us, 3 passengers had a thing against Bush Camps and so the Drago leader ...

Hey! So we've travelled south from Chennai to Madurai - stopping off in an amazing fishing village - Mamallapuram. The beach was fantastic here and the sea food outstanding! Loads of markets selling hand crafted stuff, and we hired bikes to see some archeological sites - all very interesting! We then got an eight hour sleeper train to Madurai. T...

On August 15th 1947, India declared its independence and today we celebrated this with all other 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 si...

Our initial plan allowed us two full days in Madurai , last big city in Tamil Nadu, but the National Independence Day of India messed up our plans because of the fully-booked train. So we decided to make it a one-and-a-half day chockerblock filled with meeting friends, discovering palaces and trying our hand at taking local buses. Our first step...