Hotel Supreme Madurai

... actually I was forewarned by the driver, when you call for room service in Madurai, these guys do not knock on the door and they would straight away open the door and come in. Therefore, when you stay in Madurai, make sure your room door is always locked. ...

... we stop at are seething masses of chaos, people, buses, rickshaws, cows, 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 ...

... viewing.  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. ...

... wrong side of the station.... thank goodness i started asking questions because i had been misinformed!!) and then from Trivandrum to Madurai. Total 8 1-2 hours of train. The landscape is beautiful. Mountains, palm trees, rice paddies.. and no less than 5 ...

I'm sitting at the roof restaurant of the Hotel Supreme, watching the sun go down with Sri Meenakshi Temples in front of me...the temples are amazing, but more on that in a tick... Said goodbye to the beach and attempted my first solo, long distance train ...

... , filthy place riddled with germs, flys and mosquitoes but don't let me put you off! We arrived late and had made a booking at Hotel Supreme but we found the service there so poor that we moved along the road the next day to Hotel Park Plaza and got a ...

... Madurai. No other westerners joined him. The V Man arrived in Madurai at about 1pm. A tuk tuk took him to his Madurai home, i.e. Hotel Supreme. Following a quick lunch at the Taj restaurant the V Man set off in search of a rail ticket to Villapuram. ...

... over by a local god from Thirupparankundram Pavalaakanivaai Perumal. This is celebrated annually as 'Chitirai Thiruvizha' in Madurai. During the period of Nayakar rule in Madurai, the then ruler Thirumalai Nayakar linked the 'Azhakar Thiruvizha' and ...

... by the Pandiyas. But somehow He managed to reach Bouthiramanikkapattanam and conveyed the message of Thiuppandiyan's invasion back to Madurai. Hazrat Sulthan Syed Ibrahim Badusha was saddened by this and sent a large troop towards madurai. Before the ...

... far away in Varkala, one of Kerala's main beach sites. I am looking forward to that. -------------------------- So, meine letzten Stunden in Madurai bzw. im Staat Tamil Nadu sind angebrochen. Es waren 12 schoene Tage und Tamil Nadu ist definitiv ein ...

... ;mountains to then sort of a jungle (Michal kept looking for elephants) and then we crossed over to Tamil Nadu (Madurai's state) into a flatter, fields covered area.  And the drive was entertaining with the movies played on the tiny TV screens ...

... the emporiums are owned by Kashmiris across all of India and they are seriously exploitative)! We left to grab a late lunch in the Supreme, which falls into my top ten curries list (I had a kind of deep fried vegetable ball thing in a very spicy tomato ...

Just another 5 minutes drive from Alagar Koil, is Palamuthirsolai Murugan Temple. Actually this temple is situated on the hill and Alagar Koil is at the base.     The way up to this temple was very ...