Madurai Athens of the East - MedicalTour-India.com

MADURAI, an ancient city that has about 2600 years of history to its pride, is in Tamilnadu, South India.

This City is situated on the banks of Vaigai River and is referred to as the Athens of the East. Great travelers and traders like Megasthenes, Pliny, Ptolemy, Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta visited this glorious city.

It is also known as the Temple City for its vastness, the age-old culture, the tradition, the famous temples, the Vaigai River and other tourist parts. Sweet smelling, fragrant jasmine flowers are special here.

It is built around the Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple. Concentric rectangular streets surround the temple, symbolizing the structure of the cosmos. The entire city is laid out in the shape of a Lotus. And these streets are named after the names of Tamil Year.

This city is so busy that sometimes it is called Thoonga Nagaram (the city that never sleeps)with its appearance of operating twenty four hours a day.

People here speak English and Tamil (native language) very well.

PLACES OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS :

WITHIN MADURAI:

Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal
Meenakshi Amman Temple
Ramakrishna Matt
Sri Aravindar Annai Trust Meditation Center

AROUND MADURAI:

Kodaikanal
Thekadi
Tanjore
Kumbakonam
Kanyakumari
Rameshwaram

AIRPORT

There are proper facilities of transportation through air (Domestic Airport), through bus and through rail (Junction). Madurai Airport is 10 Kms away from the City.There are daily flights to Madurai from Chennai, Bangalore,Tiruchi & Coimbatore.

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD

It has many Business Class Hotels and Multi Cuisine Restaurants to cater to the needs of tourists. Hotel Star Residency, Metrople Hotel, Hotel Royal Court and Hotel Germanus are a few to name them.

MEDICAL TOURISM IN MADURAI

Many Internationally Accredited Global Healthcare Hospitals like Apollo, Meenakshi Mission Hospital & Research Center, Aravind Eye Hospital are here to serve patients around the world.