Travel Reference
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GOVERNMENT BUSES FROM MADURAI
DESTINATION
FARE (?)
DURATION (HR)
FREQUENCY
Chennai
325
9-10
40 daily
Coimbatore
125
6
every 15min
Ernakulam (Kochi)
340
8
9am & 9pm
Kanyakumari
140-150
4
31 daily
Kodaikanal
75
4
14 buses 5am-2pm, & 5.50pm
Mysore
280-360
16
7 buses 4.30-9.45pm
Ooty
170
9
/7.30am & 9.30pm
Puducherry
265
8
8.45pm & 9.30pm
Rameswaram
110
5
every 30min
Trichy
90
3
40 daily
TRAIN
From Madurai Junction station, 13 daily trains head north to Trichy (two to five hours)
and nine to Chennai, the fastest being the 6.45am Vaigai Express (Trichy 2nd/chair class
?71/253, two hours; Chennai ?132/488, eight hours). A good overnight train for Chennai
is the 8.35pm Pandyan Express (sleeper/3AC/2AC/1AC ?232/730/880/1500, nine hours).
To Kanyakumari the only daily train departs at 1.55am (sleeper/3AC/2AC ?157/398/640,
five hours), though there's a later train some days (at varying times). Trivandrum (three
trains daily), Coimbatore (two daily) and Bengaluru (onedaily) are other destinations.
Getting Around
The airport is 12km south of town and taxis cost ?300 to the centre. Alternatively, buses
Bus Stand (
Click here
)
, bus 5 (?4) shuttles into the city; an autorickshaw is ?100.
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Rameswaram
04573 / POP 46,461
Rameswaram was once the southernmost point of sacred India; to leave its boundaries
was to abandon caste and fall below the status of the lowliest skinner of sacred cows.
