Antique Stone Sculpture at Royal Palace, Thanjavur
























On my recent trip to Madurai, I visited Thirumalai Nayak palace built by king Thirumalai Nayak of Madurai. The palace from outside looks like a medium sized godown. But once you enter inside it is another world in terms of architecture. The palace was built in a combination of Italian and Indian architecture. Thirumalai Nayak…
Distance: 160 km from Bangalore and 210 km from Chennai Journey time: 2 hrs by train + 45 mins by bus/cab from Bangalore and 3.5 – 4 hrs from Chennai. How to reach there: For train – catch any train going to Jolarpet junction station and from there catch bus# 253 to reach Yelagiri(Rs 7)….
Location: Coimbatore is located on the central western part of Tamil Nadu. On the west and south it shares boundary with Kerela, on the north with Nilgiris district and Erode district, on the east with Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu. District Headquarter: Coimbatore Distance: 330 km from Bangalore, 2167 km from Kolkata, 2401 km from…
Location: Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu District Headquarter: Dindigul Distance: 138 km from Coimbatore, 500 km from Bangalore, 80 from Palani, 260 km from Ooty, 90 km from Dindigul, 120 km from Madurai, 330 km from Cochin, 1013 km from Hyderabad, 366 km from Tiruvandrum Journey time: Around 11 – 12 hrs by Bus How to…
On the night of 01/01/2011 I called up MMTT travel on the way back from Rameswaram to check if seats for package tour to Kanyakumari is available. To our luck it was available. After reaching Madurai we bought the tickets at MMTT office. Kanyakumari package tour cost per person was Rs 450 but the cost…
on 31st night we have booked tickets for Rameswaram through Sree Devi hotel. At their reception I found the package trip per person to Rameswaram is Rs 275 including food. But dude to season time they charged us Rs 350. We were provided 2 seats on Subbu Travels. The scheduled timing was 7.30 am to…