A classic South India pilgrimage and coastal tour. Pray at the Meenakshi Amman Temple, walk the longest temple corridors in India at Rameshwaram, cross the Pamban Bridge to the land's end at Dhanushkodi, and watch the sun rise where three seas meet at Kanyakumari.
- Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
- Route: Madurai – Rameshwaram – Dhanushkodi – Kanyakumari – Thiruvananthapuram
- Best time to visit: October to March
- Starts: Madurai airport / railway station
- Ends: Thiruvananthapuram airport / railway station
Tour Highlights
- Meenakshi Amman Temple and Thirumalai Nayak Palace, Madurai
- Pamban Bridge across the sea
- Ramanathaswamy Temple and its 1,200 m corridors
- Dhanushkodi and Arichal Munai — India's land's end
- Sunrise, Vivekananda Rock Memorial and Thiruvalluvar Statue at Kanyakumari
- Padmanabhapuram Palace
Itinerary
Day 1: ARRIVE MADURAI
- Arrive at Madurai airport or railway station and meet your driver
- Check in to the hotel
- Visit Thirumalai Nayak Palace and the Gandhi Memorial Museum
- Evening darshan at the Meenakshi Amman Temple; stay for the night Palliyarai (bedtime) ceremony
- Overnight stay in Madurai
Day 2: MADURAI – RAMESHWARAM (175 KMS / 4 HRS DRIVE)
- Breakfast and check out
- Drive to Rameshwaram, crossing the Pamban Bridge over the sea
- Visit the Ramanathaswamy Temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas, and its pillared corridors
- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam National Memorial
- Evening at Agni Theertham beach
- Overnight stay in Rameshwaram
Day 3: RAMESHWARAM – DHANUSHKODI – KANYAKUMARI (310 KMS / 6 HRS DRIVE)
- Early morning drive to Dhanushkodi and Arichal Munai, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean
- See the ruins of the old town lost to the 1964 cyclone
- Panchamukhi Hanuman Temple with its floating stones
- Drive to Kanyakumari and check in to the hotel
- Sunset from the beach
- Overnight stay in Kanyakumari
Day 4: KANYAKUMARI SIGHTSEEING
- Watch the sunrise over the ocean
- Ferry to the Vivekananda Rock Memorial and the 133 ft Thiruvalluvar Statue (glass bridge)
- Kanyakumari Bhagavathy Amman Temple
- Gandhi Mandapam and Kamarajar Memorial
- Evening shopping for shell crafts on the beach road
- Overnight stay in Kanyakumari
Day 5: KANYAKUMARI – SUCHINDRAM – PADMANABHAPURAM – THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (90 KMS)
- Breakfast and check out
- Visit the Thanumalayan Temple at Suchindram with its musical pillars
- Padmanabhapuram Palace, the largest wooden palace in Asia (closed on Mondays)
- Drop at Thiruvananthapuram airport / railway station for your onward journey
- Tour ends with sweet memories
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Photo credits: S-TN-34 Meenakshi Amman Temple South Gopuram enriched with delicate Stucco works by MADHURANTHAKAN JAGADEESAN (CC BY-SA 4.0); Pamban bridge near rameshwaram by Shubham Gupta (CC BY-SA 3.0); Ramanathaswamy Temple corridor 01 by Rangan Datta Wiki (CC BY-SA 4.0); Vivekananda rock kanyakumari 251 by Sanchit (CC BY-SA 3.0); DhanushkodiCretaDrive by Arunpnair 787 (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
