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14 places to explore — hand-picked across Tamil Nadu.
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Chidambaram is an ancient, vital pilgrimage town near the coastal plains of the Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu. The destination is known for hosting the Thillai Nataraja Temple, a multi-acre temp…
At India's southeastern tip, Dhanushkodi is a hauntingly beautiful ghost-town beach on a thin sandbar where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean, near sacred Rameswaram. The best months to vis…
Kamakshi Amman Temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. According to tradition, this is where the…
Kanchipuram, the 'City of a Thousand Temples', is one of Hinduism's seven sacred Sapta Puri cities and a great centre of Dravidian temple architecture. Famed for the Kamakshi Amman, Ekambareswarar …
At the southernmost tip of mainland India, Kanyakumari is famous for sunrises and sunsets over three converging seas, the Vivekananda Rock and the Thiruvalluvar statue. The best months to visit ar…
Kumari Amman Temple in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. According to tradition, this is where the *…
The Meenakshi Amman Temple is a historic Dravidian temple complex located in the heart of Madurai, an ancient city on the banks of the Vaigai River. Dedicated to Goddess Meenakshi, a powerful form …
Narayani Temple (Suchindram) in Suchindram, Tamil Nadu is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. According to tradition, this is whe…
Palani's Dhandayuthapani Swamy — Murugan as the renunciate boy with staff and loincloth — watches from his hill shrine over one of Tamil Nadu's greatest pilgrimages. This is where the child god, lo…
Srirangam is a temple town on an island between the Kaveri and Kollidam rivers near Tiruchirappalli. It is built around the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, one of the largest functioning Hindu temple c…
Thanjavur, once Tanjore, sits in the fertile Kaveri delta and is dominated by the Brihadeeswarar Temple — the 'Big Temple'. Commissioned in 1010 CE by the Chola emperor Raja Raja I, it is one of th…
At Tiruvannamalai, Shiva is the mountain itself — Arunachala, the hill of fire, with the vast Arunachaleswarar temple at its foot spreading over ten hectares beneath four colossal gopurams. Pilgrim…
Velankanni, the 'Lourdes of the East', is the largest Christian pilgrimage centre in India — home to the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health on the Bay of Bengal coast. Drawing millions of devotees…
Rameshwaram sits at the very tip of a slender island connected to the Tamil Nadu mainland by the Pamban Bridge, looking out across the Palk Strait toward Sri Lanka. At its heart is the Ramanathaswa…
