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South India TravelsYatra · Madurai

What we do

Everything between the aircraft door and the aircraft door.

Twenty-two services, all of them run by the same team. You are never handed between agencies halfway through a trip.

Our services

Journeys

Itineraries built around how far you want to go and how long you have, from a two-night temple circuit to five weeks across the country.

Tamil Nadu Tours

Temples, hill stations and coastline across the state we know street by street.

South India Tours

Four states on one itinerary — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and the Andhra coast.

Pan India Tours

The golden triangle, Rajasthan, the Himalaya and the islands, arranged end to end.

Coming soon

International Tours

Outbound holidays with visa support and airfare. Opening bookings shortly.

Customised Travel Plans

Tell us the dates, the pace and the people. We build the rest around it.

On the ground

The part that decides whether a holiday feels effortless — transport, timing and someone who answers the phone at 5am.

Airport Pickup & Drop

Met inside arrivals at Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore or Trichy — flight tracked, waiting time absorbed.

Cab Services

Point to point or by the day, with drivers who know the routes properly.

Luxury Vehicle Rental

Sedans, SUVs, tempo travellers and coaches, all chauffeur-driven and maintained in-house.

Local Guide Services

Licensed guides in Tamil, English, Hindi, French and German who tell you the good version.

Where you stay and eat

Rooms inspected by us, not booked off a screen — and food arrangements that account for what you actually eat.

Hotel Booking

Heritage properties, estate bungalows and city hotels, held at rates we negotiate directly.

Complete Accommodation

Every night of a long itinerary confirmed before you land, including the awkward ones.

Food Arrangements

Jain, vegan, halal, no-onion-no-garlic, allergy-safe — arranged in advance, not improvised.

Travelling for a reason

Most people arrive with a purpose. These are the journeys we run most often, and the ones we have refined hardest.

Temple Tours

Circuits built around darshan timings rather than around traffic.

Pilgrimage Packages

Navagraha, Arupadai Veedu, Tirupati — bookings and queues handled.

Hill Station Tours

Ooty, Kodaikanal, Munnar, Valparai and Yercaud, at the right time of year.

Honeymoon Packages

Quiet properties, late breakfasts, and nothing scheduled before ten.

Family Packages

Paced for grandparents and children in the same vehicle.

Corporate Tours

Offsites, incentive travel and conference logistics, invoiced properly.

Student Educational Tours

Supervised group travel with verified vehicles and 24-hour escort.

Wildlife Tours

Mudumalai, Anamalai, Topslip and Periyar, with safari permits arranged.

Beach Holidays

Rameswaram, Pondicherry, Goa and the Andamans.

Adventure Trips

Trekking, paragliding, coracles and high-altitude drives.

Airport pickup & drop

From the moment you land to the moment you fly home.

A tourist arriving at Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore or Trichy should not have to think about anything except where they want to go next. This is how that works.

The airport pickup experience
Two travellers walking through a bright airport terminal with an aircraft visible through the glass

Step 01 / 07

Before you land

  • IXMMadurai
  • MAAChennai
  • CJBCoimbatore
  • TRZTrichy
  1. Before you land

    Your flight is already being watched

    We track the inbound flight from the moment it leaves. If you are three hours late at 2am, the car is three hours late too, and there is no extra charge for the wait.

  2. Arrivals hall

    Met inside, not phoned from a car park

    Your chauffeur is standing in the arrivals hall with your name, in uniform, before you clear customs. No hunting for a number plate in the dark.

  3. First ten minutes

    Cold water, a wet towel, working wifi

    A local SIM if you asked for one, the day’s plan on paper, and the car already cool. Small things, and the ones people remember.

  4. On the road

    A driver who knows the route

    Not a navigation app reading directions aloud. Someone who has driven this road at this hour and knows where to stop for the good coffee.

  5. On arrival

    Checked in, not queued up

    The hotel has your details already. Where an early check-in is needed we arrange it in advance rather than negotiating at the desk with you standing there.

  6. Every day after

    One number that always answers

    The same coordinator for your whole trip. Changed your mind about a day? Call. It gets rearranged without a fresh quotation.

  7. Departure

    Back to the terminal with time in hand

    Timed against your actual flight and the actual traffic, with the driver waiting until you are through security.

Delayed flights cost you nothing. We track your inbound flight and absorb the waiting time — there is no meter running in the car park.

Vehicle rental & cabs

Owned by us. Maintained by us. Driven by people we know.

The fleet is not subcontracted. Every vehicle carries a first-aid kit, cold water and a chauffeur who has driven your route before.

Vehicle rental and cab services
A polished black executive sedan photographed in profile on an open road
Sedan

Executive Sedan

The default for airport runs and city days — quiet, quick through traffic, and easy to park in a temple town.

Seats
4passengers
Luggage
2 large cases
Per kilometre
₹18
Local day
₹3,200

8 hours / 80 km

  • Climate control
  • Bottled water and cold towels
  • Phone charging
  • Uniformed chauffeur

Indicative rates. Tolls, permits, parking and driver allowance are included in the quotation we send you — never added afterwards.

Hotels & accommodation

Rooms we have actually stood in.

We book from properties we have inspected, at rates negotiated directly. Every night of a long itinerary is confirmed before you land — including the awkward ones.

Accommodation

Heritage properties

Converted palaces, chettinad mansions and colonial bungalows where the building is part of the trip.

Chettinad mansion houses · Palace hotels in Mysore · French-quarter villas

Estate stays

Working tea and coffee estates in the hills, where breakfast is on a veranda and the nearest road is some way off.

Munnar tea bungalows · Coorg coffee estates · Valparai planters’ houses

City hotels

Reliable four and five star properties in Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore and Kochi, chosen for location over lobby.

Business hotels near the airports · Temple-adjacent city hotels

On the water

Private houseboats on the Kerala backwaters and Dal Lake, with crew and cook aboard.

Alleppey houseboats · Srinagar shikara houseboats

A premium hotel bedroom with a fluted timber headboard, crisp linen and low warm lighting

Inspected, not listed

If a property has slipped since we last stayed there, it comes off our list. That is the whole quality control system, and it works.

Food arrangements

Eat where the queue is longest. That rule has never failed anyone.

South Indian food is one of the reasons to make this trip, and it is far too easy to spend a fortnight here eating hotel buffets. We plan the meals as carefully as the miles.

Food experience
A South Indian thali laid out on a steel tray with rice at the centre and small bowls of curries, sambar and chutneys around it

Idli before six. Filter coffee poured between two vessels until it cools. A banana leaf meal, at least once.

  • Breakfast is the meal to get right

    Idli, dosa, pongal and filter coffee, eaten where the queue is longest rather than where the tour bus stops.

  • Every restriction, arranged in advance

    Jain, vegan, halal, no-onion-no-garlic, gluten-free and genuine allergies are confirmed with each kitchen before you arrive — not explained at the table.

  • A banana leaf meal, at least once

    The full sequence, served in order, eaten with your hands, in a place that has been doing it for forty years.

  • Water you can trust

    Sealed bottled water in every vehicle, every day, replaced daily. It sounds minor until it isn’t.

Jain · vegan · halal · no onion, no garlic · gluten-free · allergy-safe — all arranged in advance