The finely hewn grandeur sculptures reflect artistic excellence and cultural splendour of dravidian culture.
Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state, is famed for its Dravidian-style of Hindu temples,has more than 4,000 years of continuous cultural history.
Tamil Nadu has some of the most remarkable temple architecture in the country, and a living tradition of music, dance, folk arts and fine arts. Tamil Nadu is well renowned for its temple towns and heritage sites, hill stations, waterfalls, national parks, local cuisine and the natural environment and wildlife.
Tamil Nadu has excellent hill stations like Ooty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud, Elagiri, Javvadhu Hills, Kolli Hills, Sirumalai Hills, Valparai, Topslip, Parvathamalai Hills and Pachamalai Hills. It has silvery cascades in Courtallam, Hogenakkal, Thiruparappu, Monkey falls,Thirumurthi Malai, Akasa Gangai and Papanasam.
It has excellent National Parks like Guindy National Park and Anamalai National Park.
It has wildlife sanctuaries in Mudumalai, Kodiakarai, Kalakkad, Mundanthurai and Berijam.
It has Botanical Gardens in Ooty, Kodaikanal and Coimbatore.
It has UNESCO declared monuments like living Chola temples at Thanjavur, Darasuram and Gangaikondacholapuram, monuments at Mamallapuram and Nilgiris Heritage Train.
The vast coastline of Tamil Nadu has many silvery beaches like the Marina, Elliots, Thiruvanmiyur, Tiruchendur, Rameswaram and Kanniyakumari.
The temples of Tamil Nadu reverberate with spirituality and music. Madurai, Rameswaram, Kumbakonam, Chidambaram, Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli have innumerable temples with different deities.
Hill stations
Ooty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud, Elagiri, Javvadhu Hills, Kolli Hills, Sirumalai Hills, Valparai, Topslip, Parvathamalai Hills and Pachamalai Hills
Ooty
The Queen of Hill stations
Kodaikanal
Honeymoon destinations in India.
Yercaud
Enchanting Hill Station
Yelagiri
Hidden Hills
The world that is a combination of rich flora and fauna and nature-architected aesthetics.
Sirumalai Hills
Lush green slopes and a salubrious weather
Point Of attractions:
Avalanche Lake…Ooty Lake…Emerald Lake…Ooty Botanical Gardens…Deer Park…Doddabetta Peak…Kalhatty Waterfalls…Kamraj Sagar Dam…Mudumalai National Park…Mukurthi National Park…Needle View Hill point/Needle Rock View-point…Ooty Rose Garden…Ooty Toy Train…Tribal Research Center…Parsons Valley Reservoir Ooty…St. Stephens Church…Ooty Stone House…Toda Huts Ooty... The Wenlock Downs… Tiger Hill… Cairn Hill
Ooty
Mudumalai National Park
An Experience Like No Other
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve is located in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu state spread over 321 sq.km. at the tri-junction of three states, viz, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and it plays an unique role by forming part of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the first Biosphere Reserve in India, declared during 1986. It has a common boundary with Wyanad Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) on the West, Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka) on the North, and the Nilgiris North Division on the South and East and Gudalur Forest Division on the South West, together forming a large conservation landscape for flagship species such as Tiger and Asian Elephant. Reception Centre is located at Theppakadu. The name Mudumalai means ” the ancient hill range”. Indeed, it is as old as 65 million years when Western Ghats were formed.
Mukurthi National Park
Your Adventure Awaits
Mukurthi National Park is a beautiful place, located in the Nilgiris district of the state of Tamil Nadu. The park was previously known as Nilgiri Tahr National Park.
It was declare as a National Park in the year of 1990. Total area of the park is about 78.46 Km2. The park is characterized by montane grasslands and shrublands interspersed with sholas in a high altitude area of high rainfall, near-freezing temperatures and high winds.
The park is a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India’s first International Biosphere Reserve. As part of the Western Ghats, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1 July 2012. The Park is sandwiched between the Mudumalai National Park and the Silent Valley National park
Needle Rock View-point
Exceeding Expectations
Sim's Park
coonoor
The Lamb's Rock
Coonoor
Longwood Shola - treaking
kotagiri
Kodanand View Point
Kotagiri
Rangasamy Hill
Kotagiri
Nilgiri
Unforgettable Memories
Nilgiri
An Experience Like No Other
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Kodakanal
Kodaikanal is linked by road with several prominent cities,Bangalore (460 km), Trichy (198 km) Chennai (530 km), Ooty (255 km), Coimbatore (175 km) and Kumili (160 km). From Madurai (120 km), it takes less than four hours to reach Kodaikanal via NH 49.
Kodaikanal
Point Of Attractions
Kodai Lake…Green Valley View…Bear Shola Falls … Pillars Rocks…Rat Tail Falls…Devil's Kitchen…Coakers walk…Berijam Lake…Dolphin's Nose…Brayant Park…Silver Cascade Falls…Silent Valley View… Kodakanal Observatory…Shenbaganur Museum…Pine Forest… The Mother Salette church…The Kukkal caves…Moir Point… Christ the King Church… Fairy Falls…Pambar Falls…Upper Lake View…Dolmen Circle…Perumal Peak... Vattakanal Falls…Poombarai - village of garlic…Mannavanur Lake -farming village…
Green Valley View
Kodaikanal
Kodai Lake
Exceeding Expectations
Yercaud
Point Of Attractions:
Yercaud Lake, The Anna Park, Lady's Seat, Pagoda Point, Killiyur Falls, The Servaroyan Temple, SILK WORLD – YERCAUD(Seri-Tourism Centre “Silk World”) Rose Garden, Botanical Garden, Gents Seat, Yercaud Lake Boat House (Emerald Lake)
Yercaud lies in the Shevaroy Hills, known for their orange groves, and coffee, fruit and spice plantations. Yercaud Lake has a boathouse, and is surrounded by gardens and woods. On the lake’s eastern shore, Anna Park has local plants and a Japanese garden with bonsai. To the southwest, Lady’s Seat vantage point has a watchtower with a telescope.
It is Situated in Salem district.
Lady's Seat
Yercaud
Yelagiri ( 170 km from Bangalore)
paragliding
Javvadhu Hills
The Eastern Ghats spread across parts of Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts
Kolli Hills - 'The Mountain of Death' Situated in Namakkal District
The most scary road in the world
The road with 70 hairpin bends - The Bikers Paradise
Sirumalai Hills
Situated 25 km (16 miles) from Dindigul and 40 km (25 miles) from Madurai
Velankanni Church
Point Of Attractions :
Annai Velankanni Church, Sirumalai Lake, Observation Tower, Sanjeevani Hills, Saathiyar Basin, Vellimalai Murugan Temple, Selvi Koil Point, Agastya Puram, Silver Hills.
Pachamalai
Pachamalai is a green hill range, just 80 kms north of Tiruchirapalli
Itinerary Planning
Exceeding Expectations
Family Travel Consultation
Everything You Need
International Travel Guidance
Personalized Approach
National Parks
The ever-changing topography of this park consist dry scrub forests, savannah forests, moist deciduous and evergreen forests and grasslands at high elevations. The park is rich in mixed deciduous forest with fair population of rosewood and teaks. The forests are noted for their valuable timber trees including teak and rosewood, Hopea parviflora, Mesua ferrea, Calophyllum
Guindy National Park and Anamalai National Park
National Park
Guindy National Park - Chennai
Guindy National Park is a 2.70 km² protected area of Tamil Nadu, located in Chennai, India, is the 8th-smallest National Park of India and one of the very few national parks situated inside a city.
Anamalai National Park.
Aanaimalai Tiger Reserve, earlier known as Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park and previously as Aanaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected area located in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi and Valparai taluks of Coimbatore District.
The faunal species includes Nilgiri Langur, Giant Squirrel, Lion tailed macaque, Gaur, Elephant, Chital, Sambar, Mouse Deer, Barking Deer, Variety of Birds, Tiger, panther, Wild Dog, Nilgiri Tahr, Nilgiri Langur, Bonnet macaque etc. The bird life includes Malabar whistling thrush, Grey jungle fowl, Malabar and Great pied hornbills, Ceylon frogmouth, Malabar trogon, Red Tree Pie, Whiskered Bulbul, Spotted Dove, Black Headed Oriole, Pigeons etc. The Amaravati reservoir in the park, having a large number of crocodiles
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Wildlife sanctuaries
Mudumalai, Kodiakarai & Kalakkad Mundanthurai .
Sanctuary is an area which is of adequate ecological, faunal, floral, geomorphological, natural or zoological significance. The Sanctuary is declared for the purpose of protecting, propagating or developing wildlife or its environment. Certain rights of people living inside the Sanctuary could be permitted. Further, during the settlement of claims, before finally notifying the Sanctuary, the Collector may, in consultation with the Chief Wildlife Warden, allow the continuation of any right of any person in or over any land within the limits of the Sanctuary.
The Wild
Mudumalai
Exceeding Expectations
The Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is a tiger reserve, lies on the northwestern side of the Nilgiri Hills (Blue Mountains) in Nilgiri .
The Reserve has tall grasses, commonly referred to as “Elephant Grass”, Bamboo of the giant variety, valuable timber species like Teak, Rosewood, etc,. There are several species of endemic flora. Such a varied habitat is inhabited by a variety of animals which include Tiger, Elephant, Indian Gaur, Panther, Sambar, Spotted Deer, Barking Deer, Mouse Deer, Common Langur, Malabar Giant Squirrel, Wild Dog, Mangoose, Jungle Cat, Hyena, among others.
Kodiakarai(Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary)
Everything You Need
Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary is a 21.47-square-kilometre protected area in Tamil Nadu, South India along the Palk Strait where it meets the Bay of Bengal at Point Calimere at the southeastern tip of Nagapattinam District.
Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
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Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve located in the Southern Western Ghats in Tirunelveli district and Kanyakumari district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is the second-largest protected area in Tamil Nadu. It is part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve.
One of the large patches of Non-Equatorial Rain Forests: KMTR bears a large contiguous tract of about 400 sq.kms of wet evergreen forests located away from the equatorial region. Besides a rich array of flora and fauna, it harbours a large number of threatened species including the Lion Tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus), a flagship species of rainforests in the Western Ghats.
Botanical Gardens
A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation and display of a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names
Ooty, Kodaikanal & Coimbatore
Ooty Botanical Gardens
Spread over an area of 55 acres,which has the fern house which harbors one hundred and twenty seven species of ferns, the Lower Garden, which contains the rose garden, a lot of natural floral carpets and natural ponds, the Italian Garden, laid down by Italian Prisoners of War from the First World War, the Conservatory, which has lots of groups of flowering plants and the Nurseries, which contains a series of glass houses which contains innumerable varieties of exotic plants. The Flower show held as a part of the Summer Festival in Ooty is a must see if you happen to visit Ooty during that time.
This garden was laid out in 1897 by the Marquis of Tweedale and is spread over 55 acres. Lush green, well maintained lawns, rare trees species (like the cork tree which is probably the only such tree in India, the paper bark tree and the monkey puzzle tree-monkeys cannot climb this tree), a 20 million year old fossilized tree, an Italian-style garden bordering a clear pool, a vast variety of flowering bushes and plants in myriad hues (exotic and ornamental), fern house with a vast range of ferns and orchids, are some of the many highlights of this garden. A flower show along with an exhibition of rare plant species is held every year in month of May at this garden.
Beaches
The Marina, Elliots, Thiruvanmiyur, Tiruchendur, Rameswaram and Kanniyakumari.
The Marina Beach
Edward elliot each
Thiruvanmiyur
Tiruchendur Beach
Ramahwaram Beach
Kanyakumai Beach
UNESCO Heritage Monuments
Chola temples at Thanjavur, Darasuram and Gangaikondacholapuram.
Monuments at Mamallapuram and Nilgiris Heritage Train.
The Great living Chola temples at Thanjavur
Darasuram
Gangaikondacholapuram
Monuments at Mamallapuram
Exceeding Expectations
Nilgiris Heritage Train
Everything You Need
Temples with different deities
Madurai, Rameswaram, Kumbakonam, Chidambaram, Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli
The temples of Tamil Nadu reverberate with spirituality and music.
Meenakshi Temple Madurai
