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The Temple Trail - Visit India |
Answer the call of the bells and travel to South India. A peninsula surrounded by three oceans, it is a region of great natural beauty.
There exist in this terrain a great number of temples and temple cities, overwhelming in their detail of sculpture and grandeur of scale. Many of them as much a part of everyday life today as they were centuries ago. The earlier temples that survive are rock-cut, literally carved out of enormous blocks of stone.
Follow the temple trail of the Kanchipuram - Madurai - Tiruchirapalli - Kanniyakumari circuit and discover some of the notable examples of temple art and architecture. The Kailasanatha temple at Kanchipuram with a four-storeyed tower and octagonal shikhara is a commendable piece of creativity. During the reign of the Pandyas, the temple walls were pierced by entrance gates, surmounted by soaring towers called gopurams, taller than those raised on the shrine itself and elaborately sculptured. The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple at Madurai and the Rock Fort temple at Tiruchirapalli figure among the marvels of the temple architecture of South India.
Destinations Covered :
Kanchipuram
Madurai
Tiruchirapalli
Kanniyakumari
Bhubaneswar
Puri
Konark
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