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Tamil Nadu & Chennai

Tamil Nadu & Chennai

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Tamil Nadu &

Includes  Why Go? Chennai (Madras). . .327 is the homeland of one of humanity’s living Mamallapuram. . . 346 classical civilisations, stretching back uninterrupted for two Puducherry millennia and very much alive today in the Tamils’ language, (Pondicherry). . . . 358 dance, poetry and Hindu religion. (Tanjore). . . 371 But this state, with its age-old trading vocation, is as Trichy dynamic as it is immersed in tradition. Fire-worshipping (Tiruchirappalli). . . 374 devotees who smear tikka on their brows in the famously ...... 380 spectacular Tamil temples might rush off to IT offices to develop new software applications – and then unwind at ...... 400 a swanky night-time haunt in rapidly modernising Chen- nai (Madras). When the heat and noise of Tamil Nadu’s temple towns overwhelm, escape to the very end of India where three seas mingle, or up to the cool, forest-clad, wild- Best Temples life-prowled . It’s all packed into a state that remains proudly distinct from the rest of India, while at the ¨¨Meenakshi Amman Temple (p381) same time being among the most welcoming. ¨¨Brihadishwara Temple (p371) ¨¨Arunachaleshwar Temple (p356) When to Go ¨¨Sri Ranganathaswamy Chennai Temple (p375) °C/°F Te mp Rainfall inches/mm 32/800 ¨¨Nataraja Temple (p367) 40/104

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Palani 47 Vaigai Brihadishwara Brihadishwara Thanjavur’s (p371 Temple 5 4 faces of the traditional but the traditional of faces Chennai capital cosmopolitan p327 (Madras; in an opulent mansion in Chettinadu (p378 u 100 km 100 Palace Batlagundu Tiruparankundram Tiger Reserve 50 miles ) Rajapalaiyam Western Ghats (Kodai) Bengalur ) (Bangalore Hills Mettupalayam s Topslip Sea Ooty (Udhagamandalam) K E R A L A (Quilon) Kollam 47 Mudumalai Tiger Reserve Lakshadweep (Trivandrum) Ernakulam Kochi (Cochin) 0 0 Parambikulam (p400) 47 oaking up the unique oaking Gudalur Western Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary S E A K A R N A T A K A K A R N A T S Climbing into the cool, the cool, Climbing into Admiring the magnificence magnificence the Admiring Thiruvananthapuram Nilgiri Hills 17 or Ooty misty forests of the Western Western the of forests misty (p390 at Kodaikanal Ghats of Chola architecture at Chola architecture of 3 2 Tamil Nadu Highlights Nadu Tamil 1 Franco-Indian flair and Franco-Indian Puducherry of scene yoga p358) (Pondicherry; A R A B I A N

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