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Ten best holiday destinations in India

New Delhi: India is the world's seventh-largest country stretching from the high mountains of the Himalayas to the tropical greenery of Kerala, and from the sacred Ganga river to the hot sands of  Thar Desert.

3. Sri Meenakshi Temple, Madurai

 

Ten best holiday destinations in India

The Sri Meenakshi Temple is the abode of the triple-breasted, fish-eyed Goddess Meenakshi Amman, is considered by many to be the height of South Indian temple architecture, as vital to the aesthetic heritage of this region as the Taj Mahal is to North India. It's not so much a temple as a 6-hectare complex enclosed by 12 gopurams, the highest of which towers 52m over Madurai, and all of which are carved with a staggering array of gods, goddesses, demons and heroes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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