Madurai Vacations, Madurai Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Yesterday we spent the day at the Ghandi Museum in Madurai.  There is a Ghandi Museum in every city in India I think, but this one was particularly good.  We spent the afternoon at the Palace and Temple with our own personal tour guide.  The guide cost us 300 rupees for 1/2 the day ($7.5  Cnd) and she had her masters of tourism management!  We were fully immersed in the Hindus culture.  THe guide insisted that Rick get the red dot on his forehead (I got a pi...

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Today I visited Sri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.  I actually have a great view of it from the roof of the hotel that I’m staying at.  It’s quite massive and the inner temple was full of pilgrims saying their prayers and receiving blessings from the brahmins.      It was beautiful, but let’s face it, I’m all templed out.  I can’t count how many temples I’ve visited in the past few weeks and I don’t want to.  I’ve gotten pretty jaded he...

Although we were all charmed by the easy life in Mammallapurum, we had to get up early to get an 8 hour train to Madurai.  This would be our first train experience, and it was interesting.  We had a lot of young locals coming up to chat, starting with a group of 18 year old university student girls, who asked all about england.  I gave them my photos to look at of family and friends and they were really interested to see the western stlye of living on them.  One girl asked...