In Madurai
Today, visit the Tirumala Nayak Palace with its beautiful stuccoes. Then, ride the rickshaw to explore and unravel the city’s other traits such as banana and vegetable markets, bamboo bazaar, dhobi ghat, as well as seat of textile and brass industries to watch locals make metal pots on furnace and spinning yarns and stopping at the temple of Meenakshi, the fish-eyed goddess.
The afternoon tour of the weaver’s colony to learn how the famous Madurai cotton is woven, creating some of India’s most beautiful saris and the temple of Tripurakundram, is one of the six main pilgrimage sites for the devotion of the son of Shiva – Lord Murugan.
In the evening, witness the ‘Aarti Ceremony’ at the famous Meenakshi Temple duringwhich an icon of Shiva is delivered by worshippers to the shrine of hiswife to rest for the night.