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Madurai Highlights: Guided Half-Day Sightseeing and Culinary Tour by Car
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8 Ratings
Madurai
Experience the best of Madurai on a guided half-day sightseeing and culinary tour. Visit stunning temples, explore colorful markets, and indulge in local delicacies. Book now!
Experience the best of Madurai on a guided half-day sightseeing and culinary tour. Visit stunning temples, explore colorful markets, and indulge in local delicacies. Book now!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Madurai - Visit the Madurai- an energetic, ancient city with the 14 colorful gopurams (gateway towers) of Meenakshi Amman Temple and dravidian-style temples across the city.
- Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple - Visit the Meenakshi Temple, cover different aspects of ancient, walled, Hindu place of worship with sacred water tank and colorful,…
- Madurai - Visit the Madurai- an energetic, ancient city with the 14 colorful gopurams (gateway towers) of Meenakshi Amman Temple and dravidian-style temples across the city.
- Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple - Visit the Meenakshi Temple, cover different aspects of ancient, walled, Hindu place of worship with sacred water tank and colorful, sculpted gate towers.
- Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal - Visit the 17th-century palace erected by King Tirumala Nayaka, a king of Madurai’s it is a classic fusion of Dravidian and Rajput styles.
- St. Mary’s Cathedral - Visit the St Mary’s Cathedral gothic styled church.
- East Marret Street - Discover the bustling markets of the city with eateries, craft vendors, apparel & an iconic building.
- Vandiyur Mariamman Teppakulam - Visit the Vandiyur Mariamman Temple and temple tank built by the King Thirumalai Nayak.
What's Included
- Great local tips and recommendations
- Highly trained and friendly Storyteller/ Guide who can speak English & Hindi
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Great local tips and recommendations
- Highly trained and friendly Storyteller/ Guide who can speak English & Hindi
- In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
- Lunch at your own expenses
- Entrance fee to any historical site
- Lunch at your own expenses
- Entrance fee to any historical site
Additional Information
Discover all the beautiful and famous sites of Madurai and taste local delicacies on this fantastic 4-hour experience with a personal guide in an air-conditioned car.
Highlights:
Discover the marvelous temples, colorful markets and spilled across the city. We have designed this beautiful garland of all the places in our Trails of Madurai tour, an…
Discover all the beautiful and famous sites of Madurai and taste local delicacies on this fantastic 4-hour experience with a personal guide in an air-conditioned car.
Highlights:
Discover the marvelous temples, colorful markets and spilled across the city. We have designed this beautiful garland of all the places in our Trails of Madurai tour, an unmatched heritage experience with awesome stories to understand a city’s existence, culture and local trivia.
- Visit beautiful hilltop temples, Dravidian style architecture buildings, markets and listen to stories of the city’s history, culture and life.
- Explore the famous Meenakshi Amman Temple, Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal, St. Mary’s Cathedral and many other tourists places.
- Complete the tour with a big smile on your face and beautiful memories to cherish in your photos.
Location
Madurai
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(8 Ratings)
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Marckuzyszyn
Feb 14, 2025
The Ultimate Madurai Tour - Absolutely perfect way to see all the main sights of Madurai. Our guide Meeran was fantastic, accommodating every request and imparting so much knowledge of the places we visited and also about the vibrant city of Madurai.
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Raewyn_s
Dec 28, 2024
Value for money and excellent tour - A truly excellent tour with a guide who paced the tour to our needs. He provided us with interesting facts and fascinating stories. Our driver was also wonderful and transported us in comfort.
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Matthew_k
Dec 20, 2024
Interesting trip lots of sights and amazing carvings - We had an very interesting trip with a great guide, Prakash and careful driver Meeran. We visited the church with the coloured glass windows shining in the sun. Next we went to a palace with giant columns, then to the wonderful temple full of fantastic carvings, some painted plaster on the towers with stone carvings everywhere at ground level, the pillars where particularly fine. We then went to the flower market, the veg market and Gandhi museum (mostly being renovated), banana market and midway included a stop for a tasty veg lunch at Sree Sabarees. Thank you Prakash for telling us the history of Madurai and all the names of the statues etc. and Meeran for driving carefully and getting us safely around.
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Andy
May 19, 2024
Amazing temple tour - Very much worth having a guide to take tou around. Ours was very knowledgeable and really talked us through the history and thr culture. No phones in the temple so be prepared to leave them in a shop where tou will feel somewhat pressured to buy stuff afterwards. But nice guys and not too much of a hard sell. Take water as well..
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Harmin_r
Apr 9, 2024
Highly recommended - By far the best experience in our trip in South India. Prakash was very knowledgeable about landmarks and places in Madurai! Exceptional service! Highly recommended.
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Budhra
May 4, 2023
Excellent tour! - Prakash was amazing and made the visit memorable. Great visit to all the stated sites and took the time to explain the story very well! Thank you much.
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Pravinchandra_p
Feb 26, 2023
Excellent - The temple was wonderful. Great spiritual experience. The guide was perfect and very knowledgeable. I will recommend this to anyone.
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John
Jan 31, 2025
A village - Someone once told me that Madurai is a village of 2 million people. So it is. I loved the energy of Madurai and the surrounding area during the Pongal festivities. Everywhere people were celebrating and graciously allowed us to join in.
The temple was jammed with devotees waiting for a brief blessing by Shiva while those of us not Hindu waited for the final ceremony of the day by sitting around the central tank soaking up the sights, sounds and smells of such an auspicious time.
I had wanted to see the grand sculpted and painted towers which I had seen first many years ago, but they are under renovation. If that’s a box you need to tick, you might have to wait another year or so.
The Tepakulam Tank is another place where the best of Madurai comes out. Go at night and enjoy the atmosphere.
Madurai is full of places to explore so enjoy!
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