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Featured: Vellore FortThe Palar-side fort-city base for Vellore Fort, the Jalakandeswarar temple, the CMC and the city temples and churches.
Featured: Vallimalai Jain Caves and Murugan TempleThe railway-junction and VIT campus town base, gateway to the Vallimalai Jain caves.
Featured: Sri Lakshmi Narayani Golden Temple (Sripuram)The base for the Sri Lakshmi Narayani Golden Temple and the Amirthi park and falls south of the city.
Pallikonda area of the district.
Sathuvachari area of the district.
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We have not published a story about Velapadi itself yet. These cover Vellore, the district it sits in, and travel in Tamil Nadu generally.
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One city, two landmarks that could hardly be less alike: a gleaming modern temple sheathed in gold, and a squat granite fort that once shook the East India Company.
From Gingee, the “Troy of the East”, to the Danish walls of Dansborg — how Tamil Nadu’s hill citadels and coastal castles trace the making of a colonial empire.
Pair the granite fort and gilded temple of Vellore with the ancient temple town of Kanchipuram on an easy two-day loop from Chennai or Bengaluru.
Top places to visit in Velapadi include Aanaikulathamman Temple, Velapadi — each has a full guide with how to reach it and what to see nearby on this page.
November to February is the coolest, most comfortable season to visit Velapadi and the rest of Tamil Nadu. April to June is very hot, and the October–December north-east monsoon brings the delta its main rains.
