The visit took me back to Madurai India in a more traditional, less affected by Western civilization, and also poorer. The city of one million inhabitants is very busy, traffic and the noise is intense. Small Hindu temples are hidden in every corner, little brothers of the huge Sri Meenakshi Temple, No. 1 attraction
the city. Madurai is the temple built around 16th century inspired by the Dravidian architecture. The British East India Company - definitely everywhere - the old fort was demolished in 1840 and built 4 major streets forming a square around the temple and delimiting the old city. So, it's pretty easy to spot in the center Madurai, convenient for exploring the many markets: flowers, spices, vegetables, but also a market for kitchen utensils, books and fabrics housed in a temple. Small narrow galleries lined with stalls run through the main hall of the temple, the Hindu deities carved ceilings and mix with shops. In the lanes to the fabric, the designers at work are aligned, focused on their machine. Here the seam is a people business. Sri Meenakshi temple has a dozen laps in the story called "Gopurams" up to 50m high and covers an area 6 ha: so that it
plenty to do when the visit. In the complex, except those towers finely carved, painted in every color, there is a tank room "with a thousand columns" housing a museum and many galleries with ceilings painted bright colors. The faithful are very numerous, and parts for worship are forbidden to foreigners: / 
As in Hampi, a sacred elephant harvest tickets of Rs 10 in his trunk. Upon leaving, I told myself that I would have done so to take a guide, I'm sure I missed a few rooms given the sheer size the monument ... In the surrounding streets, beggars and harassers are numerous. Some children threaten tourists with a kind of whip rope snapped on the ground that they are hoping to scare them and collect a few rupees. Needless to say it did not have the desired effect on me: p Madurai also has a 17th century palace, the Tirumalai Nayak Palace, built
by the ruler of the moment. There are only a few rooms, of which the main hall, the dance hall (serving here as a small museum) and a courtyard surrounded by a gallery with huge columns. The building has a few domes and ceilings painted quite impressive. But the majority of visitors were interested in something else: in the courtyard, shooting was coming. The assistants were trying to install rails cameras, lights and any other equipment. I walked out in a small half-hour to reach a large square tank called Mariamman Tank. is the venue of the Float Festival in late January. Pray for the faithful make a boat at the center of the tank where a temple is located. In normal times, the tank is empty and serves as a cricket ground ... The next step is the southern most point of the Indian subcontinent, Kanyakumari. 6 o'clock bus from Madurai lead me tomorrow.
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