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Tamil Nadu travel guides
39 complete guides covering 464 places in Tamil Nadu, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Chennai22 placesMarina Beach at dusk, temple gopurams rising above compact lanes, and South…
- Chettinad13 placesTeak-pillared mansions, hand-made tiles, peppery kitchens and quiet village…
- Chidambaram12 placesA temple town built around Shiva as the Lord of Dance: four towering gateways…
- Coimbatore13 placesA working textile and engineering city at the foot of the Western Ghats, with…
- Coonoor9 placesA quieter, lower hill station among tea estates, with a UNESCO-listed railway…
- Courtallam10 placesA small temple town where the Chittar river tumbles over rocks beside a…
- Dindigul8 placesA granite rock fort in the middle of town, a hill road to Sirumalai and a…
- Erode7 placesA turmeric and textile city on the Kaveri, with a Ramsar bird sanctuary…
- Hogenakkal11 placesA maze of rock channels where the Kaveri enters Tamil Nadu: coracles, mist and…
- Kanchipuram12 placesPallava stone temples, Vishnu and Shiva shrines, and looms that still weave…
- Kanyakumari22 placesIndia's southern tip where two seas meet, crowned by a rock memorial to one of…
- Kodaikanal23 placesA misty lake ringed by eucalyptus and pine trees, cooler than the plains below…
- Kolli Hills11 placesA quiet Eastern Ghats plateau reached by about 70 hairpin bends, with a very…
- Kotagiri9 placesThe quietest of the Nilgiris' three hill stations: tea slopes, a sacred peak, a…
- Krishnagiri5 placesA hill-fort town on the Bengaluru highway, with mango orchards, a quiet…
- Kumbakonam13 placesA town of temple gateways, a sacred tank and strong filter coffee in the Kaveri…
- Madurai20 placesTemple spires rising above narrow bazaar lanes, sacred waters of the Vaigai…
- Mahabalipuram21 placesRock-carved temples, shore sunrises and a UNESCO coast where 7th-century…
- Megamalai6 placesMisty tea hills, a hairpin road and a little-visited tiger reserve in the…
- Namakkal5 placesA town built around a single rock: a hill fort, two rock-cut temples at its…
- Ooty11 placesA cool-climate hill station at 2,240 metres, known for tea gardens, the toy…
- Palani11 placesA Murugan pilgrim town at the foot of the Palani Hills, where a hill shrine, a…
- Ramanathapuram10 placesA quiet Sethupathi capital on the road to Rameswaram, with a painted palace…
- Rameswaram21 placesAncient temple corridors, the iconic Pamban Bridge spanning the sea, and the…
- Salem10 placesA working city of steel, textiles and old temples, ringed by hills and hill…
- Sathyamangalam6 placesA quiet Bhavani River town at the edge of a tiger reserve: forest safaris, big…
- Srivilliputhur6 placesA temple town at the foot of the Western Ghats, where Andal's tower rises over…
- Thanjavur17 placesA thousand years of Chola ambition carved in stone: the greatest temple of the…
- Tharangambadi12 placesA small Danish-era port town on the Bay of Bengal, with a 1620 fort, two old…
- Tiruchendur10 placesA working pilgrim town where a great Murugan temple opens straight onto the…
- Tiruchirappalli13 placesA rock fort, two great river-island temples and an easy base for the Kaveri…
- Tirunelveli15 placesA river city of Shiva temples, evening halwa queues and a ring of waterfalls…
- Tiruvannamalai11 placesA temple town under a sacred hill: dawn walks around Arunachala, the great…
- Valparai12 placesTea estates on a rain-washed Ghats plateau, reached by forty hairpin bends: a…
- Vedanthangal5 placesA village tank where thousands of waterbirds nest each winter: a quiet half-day…
- Velankanni10 placesA small coastal town built around one of India's great Marian shrines: white…
- Vellore11 placesA granite fort with a moat, old temples and a famous hospital: a compact Tamil…
- Yelagiri9 placesA small, quiet hill town of lake boats, forest trails and cool mornings, within…
- Yercaud12 placesA cool coffee-and-orchid plateau above Salem, with a natural lake, easy…