About Destination

It’s enormous, colorful, aesthetically exquisite, towering, ancient and spiritual. And that’s just Tamil Nadu’s Meenakshi Temple in Madurai we’re talking about. Yet it’s like one magnificent microcosm of the whole of South India. Spice and silk stalls line the streets of every coastal city from Kochi to Chennai. The region’s aesthetic beauty ranges from Bengal tigers to tropical Andaman Islands, and from beaches to backwaters. Towering applies not only to its many mountain peaks, but also to the generosity and warmth of its people.

Like a giant wedge plunging into the ocean, South India is the subcontinent’s steamy heartland – a lush contrast to the peaks and plains up north.

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