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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Madurai Shopping - Madurai Tourism - Shopping in Madurai

Madurai is the textile hub of South India. It is famous for ready-made silk and cotton garments. The streets and lanes of town are lined with fabric shops and tailors. There is also a concentration of jewelery shops in the East Avani Moola street. On either side, building after building filed with shop house selling gold and silver. Somethings that are typically Madurai: traditional Sungudi Sarees, Silk, Brass lamps (Kuttuvillaku), Madurai Malli (jasmine garlands), fabric and handloom material etc. One can also visit Pudhu Mandapam an old pillared hall along the entrance of the meenakshi temple. It is filled with curious, kistchy, unusual things. On a hot day, get out of the heat and walk around this cool area with lots of time in hand -you are sure to find a souvenier here- be it bangles/ bracelets, baubles, sequins, beads, silk scarves, brass vessels, lamps, books, costume jewelery, prayer items, amulets, charms, bindis, embroidery laces and threads, silk and jute bags, framed pictures/ effigies of various gods and godesses, miniature models of the temple, decorative showpeices, wall hangings, local games and toys etc. There are also many tailors stiching away so if you fancy wearing a kurta or a colorful new skirt- this is the place.

Other places to shop include Chithirai Street, Avani Moola Street, Thevangu Chetty Choultry, Town Hall road etc. Some of the well established malls here are Hajeemoosa, Milan, Kishkintha, Trendz, Milan’em Mall etc. Towels of all shapes, materials, colors and sizes are also exported from madurai- you can visit Saraswati Handloom if you would like to buy some. If you are fond of cooking and would like to taste of Madurai with you, be sure to ask for Sambar powder or Rasam powder at any supermarket.

For daily necessities there are supermarkets like Remuki, Nilgiris etc. Shoppers Shop is a bigger version of a news agent selling magazines, chocolates, movies, toiletries, cosmetics, food items and other imported goods. Most international brands are stocked here.

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New Dimension to Madurai Tourism, Madurai Travels and Madurai Cabs and Madurai Hotels - SanaTourism.com

Tourism is one of the important industries in Madurai and that fetches good amount of money and revenue into Madurai.

Most of the businesses are not very structured in Madurai. Say for example, Real Estate or Politics or Tourism/Travels etc., May be Hospitality industry is.

Anyway, some of the efforts in our businesses are to get some structure to the industry and fill in the gaps, so that we can also gain by providing some kind of infrastructure to the industry.

As far as I am concerned, we can provide infrastructure like Software and Online infrastructure and also a Business Process Outsourcing structure to the industry.

In this Tourism industry, we thought it is very much necessary for an online infrastructure to be present, so that any tourist who wants to have pleasure stay in madurai can contact and do the needful.

Hence we came up with a team of people who can coordinate with the tourists and bunch of travels companies to partner with and also bunch of good quality hotels to partner with. Moreover most importantly came with a website for contacting us - SanaTourism.com

Contact us sanatourism@gmail.com for more details.

if you are a Madurai travels, please contact us and we can help you tour in and around Madurai and whole of Tamil Nadu etc., If you go through our website, you will know.

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