Madurai is a well panned built smart city with a squared circumference at once. The city still remains at the same ground level. And it is situated in the south part of Tamilnadu also a district headquarters. Having one of the old airports in India. But the airport built at a somewhat moderate distance from the central city.
The old Madurai town is known as the places around the Meenakshi Amman temple which is unique and world-famous. This temple is the main attraction and landmark of south India having 4 grand temple towers ( Gopuram). More than that Tirumalai Nayakar mahal is an important place to visit which consists of gigantic pillars.
Many temples are there in and around the city like yoga Narashima temple near Yaanai malai, Inmayil Nanmai Tharuvar temple, Thiruparangundram temple ( first home of lord Muruga) and so many small temples. We can take 3 or 4 days to get complete round on visiting so many places in the Madurai region.
For enjoyment, you have an amusement park named Adhisayam theme park which one is situated above 10 km from central Madurai city
Now the city is under rush due to the construction of so many bridges and particularly the heart of the city having so many traffic changes do to a multiplex complex construction on the Periyar bus stand. Around the Meenakshi temple 4 sides completely occupied with a lot of markets and bazaars.
Every road has identical material purchasing parts like hardware, textiles, households, cooking items and agricultural items, jewelry also. After one or two years the city infrastructure will change completely. One of the bad things is there is very less number of trees inside the main town and you can feel hotter at summers. So it is very better to visit there in November and December.
Particularly inside the Meenakshi temple, the shiv linga is known as Athama linga having more divine power. The Vaigai river is always seen dried one. In the monsoon time, you can see some of the running water for 15 days. The very important festival is Chitirai Thiruvila which will increase the economy of this city into 10 times. At that time most of the traffic is blocked and let the people walk around the city.
The very important matter is a concern with food. All the time you can get a variety of food anywhere in the city. At night 2 o clock inside the fruit markets, you can taste a very cheap and tasty nonvegetarian food.
But the city is losing the good name nowadays because of the rude behavior of people. And government transportation also costs so much for intercity transportation. Auto drivers never follow the rules and their driving style is a very arrogant one. Localities are suffering very much due to the water scarcity problem. In the summertime, you can’t able to take a look at the road because of the hot weather and less tress.
Madurai is an educational point also. Many schools and colleges are available inside the city itself. Madurai still having underground secret tunnel which was built in the period of the Pandya kingdom. A city that is standing and crossed many political changes and community fights.