Best of South India Tour package

Visit the best cities of South India. Visit Kachipuram the city of Temples , the french indian city Pondicherry...

Best of South India Tour package


Visit the best cities of South India. Visit Kachipuram the city of Temples , the french indian city Pondicherry , historical City of Chola Empire - Tanjore , Visit Rock fort Temple in trichy , Visit famous Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. Thekkady is the home to one of the largest wildlife reserves in India.

 

Day 01   Arrive Chennai – Covelong
Arrive Chennai
Upon arrival in Chennai – you will be met by our representative and proceed directly to Covelong (43 kms/1 hr)
Overnight at hotel.

Day 02   Covelong – Kachipuram – Mahabalipuram – Covelong
Full day excursion to Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram

Kanchipuram known as the Golden City of a Thousand Temples, is one of the oldest towns in India. It is famous for both its temples, many of them remarkably well preserved and for its hand-woven silks. Kanchipuram is one of the seven sacred cities of India and it is the only one associated with both Shiva and Vishnu. Visit Ekambareshwar Temple, Kailashnath Temple, Kamakshi Temple, the Vaikunthaperumal Temple, all built in the 7th and 8th centuries. With a weaving tradition dating back to the Pallava era (when silk was the royal cloth), Kanchipuram is justly famous for its particularly fine silk saris, embellished with stunning patterns.

Mahabalipuram is famous for its unique 7th century Shore Temple, lovely beach and some of the most beautiful rock cut temples in the world. Situated on the shore of the Bay of Bengal, Mahabalipuram was already a famous seaport in the 1st century AD. This town was a workshop for temple building. Visit the seven pagoda style shore temples, lashed by the waves of the sea and the seven rathas or temple chariots, a group of monolithic monuments & animal figures carved out of solid rock, the earliest known examples of Dravidian architecture. They were constructed in a single century long burst of creative enthusiasm, starting in the reign of Narasimhavarman 1 (AD 630 68).
Overnight at hotel

Day 03    Covelong – Pondicherry
Morning drive to Pondicherry (180 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.

Pondicherry, which was up until the 1950s, a far-flung outpost of the French maritime empire. It is so different from the rest of Tamil Nadu that one feels that one has entered another country! This busy coastal town is divided roughly into two: the old White Town of elegant French houses, restaurants & administrative buildings and the Black Town west of the canal where India takes over again.

Afternoon tour of Pondicherry – visit the Eglise De Sacre Coeur De Jesus and Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Later visit township of Auroville or the ‘City of Dawn’. Designed by a French architect Roger Arger, it is an entirely new concept in education and urban living.
Overnight at hotel

Day 04   Pondicherry – Tanjore
Morning drive to Tanjore (190 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.

Afternoon visit Tanjore – Once the capital of the Chola Empire from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries. A Chola king, Raja Chola, who held the throne from 985 to 1016, built the greatest of the empire's 74 temples, the Brahadeeswarar, with its soaring tower over the inner sanctum. This tower rises more than 62 meters (200 feet). On its dome rests a single block of granite weighing 80 tons.
Overnight at hotel

Day 05    Tanjore – Trichy – Madurai
Morning drive to Madurai (190 kms) enroute visiting Trichy

City tour of Trichy - visit the ‘Rock Fort Temple’ which rises abruptly to a height of 273 ft. A steep staircase cut into the rock leads upto the Fort. At the first level are the remnants of a huge hall blasted into ruins in 1772. The next storey is the Mathrubhuteshwarer Shrine dedicated to Shiva. Finally at the top of the hill, the 'Uchhi Pillayar Koil' - a Ganesh Temple offering a commanding view of the city.
Continue drive to Madurai and upon arrival check-in at hotel.
Overnight at hotel.

Day 06   Madurai
Morning, visit the Meenakshi temple one of the biggest temple complex in India – it is 46 ft. long by 790 ft broad and was built in the 17th Century. It is a rectangular twin shrine: the southern temple dedicated to Meenakshi (the consort of Shiva) and the other to Shiva. The high point of the Meenakshi temple is Hall of a "Thousand Pillars", built in the 16th Century, which is as great a work of structural engineering as it is of art. Also visit the palace of Tirumala Nayak, which is an example of the architectural mastery of the Nayaks a blend of Hindu and Saracen architecture. It’s enormous roofed arcade supported by 48 foot high stoned pillar still stands.

Evening visit of the Meenakshi temple to attend the night ceremony at the temple at 9 P.M. This is a ceremony that takes place every evening when the temple bronze of Lord Shiva is carried to the bedchamber of Parvati. The procession is accompanied by religious prayer and temple music.
Overnight at hotel

Day 07    Madurai – Periyar
After breakfast drive to Periyar (180 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.
Periyar - Sprawling across 777 sq. kms. of the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats, Thekkady is the home to one of the largest wildlife reserves in India. Alive with exotic flora and vibrant wildlife, it is the perfect getaway tucked away among hills.

Afternoon boatcruise on the Lake of the famous Periyar wildlife sanctuary to see wild life. Periyar an artificial lake or reservoir created by a dam on Periyar River is the heart of the Wildlife Sanctuary where wild elephants, Asiatic Deer, Black Buck and even Tigers come to shores of the lake to drink water.
Overnight at hotel.

Day 08    Periyar - Cochin
Morning drive to Cochin (185 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.

Afternoon sightseeing tour of Cochin or "Kochi" the palm green, commercial capital of Kerala which has one of the finest natural harbours & is known as the "Queen of the Arabian Sea". From time immemorial, Arabs, Chinese, Dutch, British & Portuguese seafarers followed the sea route to Kochi & left their impression on the town. Modern Kochi is thus a splendid mosaic of these myriad influences. Visit the Dutch Palace, the Jewish Synagogue, the Church of St. Francis, the Bolghatty Palace & the famous Chinese fishing nets.
In the evening witness the Kathakali dance performance - Kathakali is a unique dance which has a 2000 year old history with more than 100 different ‘mudras’ or gesture depicting deities, demons, heroes, heroines and kings - each based on episodes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the two epic Indian myths.
Overnight at hotel.

Day 09    Cochin – Mumbai – Abroad
Morning transfer to the airport for flight to Mumbai.
Upon arrival – you will be met and transferred to the international airport for flight for back home.

 Duration : 9 Days / 8 Nights

 Route : Chennai-Covelong-Pondicherry-Tanjore-Trichy-Madurai-Periyar-Cochin-Mumbai

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