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Buddhi 30 May 2023
Maharashtra Nagar

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Travelled in couple - May 2023
We had an amazing time with Mr.Dhanabalan. He was very knowledgeable about all in Sri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.We had enough time at the temple and everything was explained well. He was very attentive and even protected us from the touts who were harassing us in the street. Would very much recommend.
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour
Tjitske 26 Apr 2023
Utrecht

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Travelled alone - Apr 2023
Dhanabalan is a very friendly guide with good knowledge of the english language. He told me a lot about history and the different spots in the temple. Really interesting tour!!
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour
Laura 16 Apr 2023

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Travelled in couple - Apr 2023
We visited the temple in Madurai with Dhanabalan and learnt a lot about Tamil history and tradition as well as current religious practices. We were so happy with the experience that we decided to go back the same day to see the night procession, also highly recommended for the opportunity to listen to classical Tamil music. Dhanabalan is very passionate about the art and history of his country and he passes this on to the visitors, overall it was a great experience!
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour
Nella 27 Nov 2022

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Travelled in couple - Nov 2022
Me and my friend really enjoyed the Temple Evening Ceremony Tour with Dhanabalan. He explained a lot about the cultural and spiritual meanings of the temple. Dhanabalan made sure that we had a good view of the ceremony inside the temple. It was very interesting and fun to do, a must during travel in Madurai!
Temple Evening Ceremony Tour
JINWOO 05 Nov 2022
Daegu

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Travelled alone - Nov 2022
โ€œ์ด๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฌํ–‰์ง€์— ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€ โ€œHe is the best guide Iโ€™ve ever met in my whole journeysโ€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊นŠ์€ ๋„์‹œ๋ผ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ๋ ค ๋งˆ๋‘๋ผ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋งˆ๋‘๋ผ์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „์ง€์‹์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ์ผ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์—์„œ ๋งˆ๋‘๋ผ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ง€์‹์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋“ค์„ ์Šต๋“ํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์€ ์–ด๋ ต๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ถ„์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋‚œ Dhanabalan์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋‚ ์— ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ์ด ์ € ํ˜ผ์ž์˜€์ง€๋งŒ Dhanabalan์€ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฑด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ์ด ์ € ํ˜ผ์ž๋ผ ๋Œ€์ถฉ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ปค๋…• 15:30๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์ •ํ•ด์ ธ์žˆ๋˜ ํˆฌ์–ด์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํˆฌ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ํ™•์ธํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ 18์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Dhanabalan์”จ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ Meenaksh temple์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „ 5๊ฐœ์˜ ์ž…๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ •๋„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ…œํ”Œ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋‘์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Dhanabalan์€ Meenaksh temple์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ๋ฟ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํƒ€๋ฐ€๋‚˜๋‘์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ, ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€์„œ๋Š” ์ธ๋„ ์ „์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Šฅํ†ตํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ํ›„์— ์ €๋Š” Dhanabalan์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ต์ˆ˜๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์˜๋ฅผ ๋“ค์€ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์•„๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ „๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„์‰ฌ์šธ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค๋„ ๊ผญ ๋งˆ๋‘๋ผ์ด์— ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด Dhanabalan๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํˆฌ์–ดํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์œ ์ตํ•œ ์ •๋ณด ์–ป์œผ์…จ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด์š”!! I heard Madurai has long long history. To fully feel this old city, I wanted to know about history of Madurai and searched in google but I couldnโ€™t understand that much. So I tried to find the guide and I met Dhanabalan. I was the only tourist. But I did his best and I can feel that. We supposed to have 2 hours for tour but after tour I check the time and it was almost 3 hours. He knew a lot of things not only about the temple but also about Tamil nadu and India. He answered all of my questions. It was like a lecture of Professor Dhanabalan. He told me lots of stories. I hope you can meet Dhanabalan in Madurai and have a great time with him. I highly recommend him. He was the best guide.
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour
Valeria 17 May 2022
Barcelona

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Travelled alone - May 2022
I really enjoyed the tour with Dhanabalan. He is very clear explaining the things, shared lots of stories and answered all my questions. Also he was very helpful in the visit itself taking care of the formalities. I was alone so I had a private tour that ended up being much longer than the temple itself and I really enjoyed it. If you are in Madurai, sign up for his tours and you wonโ€™t regret!
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour
Joseph 15 Jan 2020

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Travelled in group - Dec 2019
Great tour. Very knowledgeable and knows all the history of the region.
2-Hours Meenakshi Temple and Hall of Thousand Pillars Walking Tour

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