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Featured: Melmalayanur Angala Parameswari TempleThe junction-town base for the Thiruvamathur temple and the central-district heritage.
Featured: Gingee FortThe 'Troy of the East' base for Gingee Fort, its Venkataramana and Venugopala temples and the Mel Sithamur Jain math.
Featured: National Fossil Wood Park, TiruvakkaraiThe Murugan-hill base near Mandagapattu's Pallava cave temple.
Featured: Marakkanam Salt Pans and BeachThe coastal base for the Marakkanam salt pans and beach and the Auroville township with the Matrimandir.
Featured: Satrumalleswaram Rock-Cut Cave Temple, DalavanurDalavanur area of the district.
Singavaram area of the district.
Perumukkal area of the district.
Panayapuram area of the district.
Ennayiram area of the district.
Featured: Chandramouleeswarar Temple, ThiruvakkaraiThiruvakkarai area of the district.
Vikravandi area of the district.
Bommayarpalayam area of the district.
Pulichapallam area of the district.
Thondur area of the district.
Valathi area of the district.
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The best tourist places to visit in Irumbai — temples, viewpoints, lakes, heritage and nature, each with a full guide, how to reach it and what to see nearby.
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We have not published a story about Irumbai itself yet. These cover Viluppuram, the district it sits in, and travel in Tamil Nadu generally.
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Three hills, thirteen kilometres of wall and a rock so sheer that Shivaji called it the most impregnable fortress in India — this is the tale of Gingee.
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.
Two days linking one of India’s largest temples and its holiest hill with the sprawling granite fortress the British called the Troy of the East.
Route-level itineraries and practical guides for the rest of the state.
A fierce guardian mother, a burning ground, and the night lakhs of devotees come to ‘loot the graveyard’.
On a once-barren plateau inland from the East Coast Road, an experimental township founded in 1968 gathers people from many nations around a golden sphere built for silence.
On a low rock outside a farming village near Gingee, a 7th-century Pallava king boasted that he had built a temple without brick, timber, metal or mortar — and quietly launched a revolution in stone.
Top places to visit in Irumbai include Mahakaleeswarar Temple, Irumbai — 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 Irumbai 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.
