Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
( 27225250;
www.grthotels.com
; 487 Gandhi Rd; s/d incl breakfast ?3000/3500; )
The GRT has the
cleanest and most comfortable rooms you'll find in Kanchi, boasting marble floors and
?185-390; 7am-11pm)
restaurant is a tad overpriced but offers a big multicuisine menu in-
cluding Western-style breakfast, good seafood and tasty tandoori.
Sree Sakthi Residency
( 27233799;
www.sreesakthiresidency.com
;
71 Nellukara St; s ?1319-1439, d ?1559; )
Simple blonde-
wood furniture and coloured walls make the rooms fairly modern, and they're good and
clean. The
Sangeetha Restaurant
HOTEL
$$
6am-10.30pm)
here, with AC
GOOGLE MAP
(mains ?50-140;
MAP
and non-AC sections, does very good veg food.
Saravana Bhavan
MAP
SOUTH INDIAN
$$
GOOGLE MAP
6am-10pm)
A reliable veg restaurant with a welcome AC dining
(66 Nellukara St; meals ?80-230;
room.
Getting There & Away
Suburban trains to Kanchipuram (?15, 2½ hours) leave Chennai's Egmore station (plat-
form 10) six times daily.
The busy
bus stand
is in the centre of town. Departures:
Chennai
?47, two hours, every 15 to 30 minutes
Mamallapuram
?42, two hours, 10 daily
Puducherry
?75, three hours, 11 daily
Tiruvannamalai
?70, three hours, 11 daily
Vellore
?41, two hours, every 15 minutes
Getting Around
Bike hire
(per hour ?5)
is available at stall around the bus stand. An autorickshaw for a half-day
tour of the five main temples (around ?400) will inevitably involve a stop at a silk shop.
