kanadukathan karaikudi

Kanadukathan is mainly famous for big chettinad houses and chettinad foods.Calm Locality, Worth to see the Palace of Chettinad Raja and other prominent people's big bungalows ( Chettinad houses )of course most of them are vacant or less occupied.Main entrances and maindoors are carved nicely like temples.

This place was earlier planned for a full fledged town, even they got small air strip, unfortunately the local business people didn't concentrate much on their home town.Whereas they are running very successful business all over Tamil Nadu.

We can learn lot about rain water harvesting from these people. All their man made Ponds (oorani) are covered with unique water harvesting techniques with natural purifying process.The water collected on these ponds are tasting good. Till eighties the local people were consuming water from the ponds (OORANI ).

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kottaiyur karaikudi

kottaiyur is a small town near karaikudi.It is famous for giant houses of the past which were built in 1960's by the nattukottai chettiars.It is the growing tourist attraction near karaikudi.If you visit karaikudi then you must visit kottaiyur.Kottaiyur is also famous for chettinad snacks(thenkulal,adhirasam,cheepu 

cheedai) which are sold in many places near kottaiyur.These places are not shops but houses.They prepare in houses and sell it in houses.They do not have shops mostly.some of the people market their products in karaikudi,devakottai and near by villages.so are you ready for kottaiyur snacks????


some informations about kottaiyur             

kottaiyur has very famous school for girls the chidambaram chettiar schools for girls.It is very old school.most of the students who want to learn in girls school will opt this school.it is the best school for girls in karaikudi


The shiva temple in kottaiyur is very famous and the festival in this temples are well received by the peoples in and karaikudi


The famous alagappa chettiar without whom the karaikudi is a mere a village was born in kottaiyur.he studiedin   s.m.s.v(sree meenakshi sunderasvarar vidyalaya) highersecondary school in karaikudi.He came to the school travelling about 10km form kottaiyur to karaikudi


Roja muthiah chettiar was also born in kottaiyur






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Tourism development in karaikudi

DHAN Foundation is promoting Responsible Tourism with the experience gained through the pilot project Government of India (GOI) – United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Endogenous Tourism for Rural Livelihoods. In addition to advancing the pilot projects at Pallathur (Karaikudi, Sivagangai district) and Kazhugumalai (Thoothukudi district), it initiated its activity at Devipattinam (Ramanathapuram district), Theerthamalai (Dharmapuri district), Thirupudai marudur (Tirunelveli district).


The innovative tourism products like ‘Development Tourism’, ‘Village Cultural Immersion Programme’, and field school for international and domestic students regularly to advance tourism efforts in Tamil Nadu. The evolving model of DHAN Foundation facilitates the participation of all the stakeholders in the project area to collaborate effectively in the promotion tourism especially with the mainstream institutions like tourism department, district administration and panchayat with the tourism based people institutions. This responsible initiative brings social, economical and environmental impact among the host communities. Further, DHAN model of tourism is taking efforts to promote tourism literacy among various stakeholders to create awareness for the protection of monuments, do and do not for hosts and tourists, preservation of heritage and fair trade practices.

The above initiatives were appreciated by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. To honour us, Tourism ministry identifies DHAN Foundation as ‘BEST NGO’ for promoting tourism in India for the year
2008-2009.

Accordingly, the Vice-President of India, Mr. M. Hamid Ansari presented the national award to DHAN Foundation under to category “BEST NGO”, at a special function held on 3rd March 2010, Vigyan Bhavan, at New Delhi in the presence of Kumari Salja, Union Minister for Tourism, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation) and Shri. Sultan Ahmed, Minister of State for Tourism, Government of India. Mr. K. P. Bharathi, Programme Leader, DHAN Tourism for Development, received the award on behalf of DHAN Foundation.This national award encourages us to advance our initiatives in Tourism for the purpose of poverty reduction.


Cultural Immersion
Tour packages such as “Arts and crafts tour” and “Architecture tour” provide the visitors knowledge about the culture and traditional practices at Chettinad. Various opportunities such as living with the community, cooking traditional food, preparing the hand made tiles, visiting their temple, and visiting their agricultural lands provide them a rich experience of chettinad. Every one of the tour packages would provide the guests with a varied experience which they will always carry in their heart forever.

Heritage water bodies
Great civilizations show that their development was directly related to the extent to which they could control and manage water resources. The hydrological characteristics of the Indian monsoon necessitated the creation of storage facilities to hold the rain water of the monsoon. With extra-ordinary engineering, managerial, and social skills, an extensive system of rainwater harvesting structures like tanks and ponds had been built and maintained by the people for centuries. The heritage water bodies, along with the temples in Chettinad, are of great attraction to tourists. It has been planned to renovate these water bodies.

Tourism Ethics
Various initiatives have been taken in ensuring the responsibility of the hosts. Charter for sustainable tourism has been derived in ensuring a balanced relationship between hosts and guests in destinations. It helps in maximizing positive impacts and minimizing negative impacts. Fair trade practices are practiced by the artisans while selling the crafts, and by the host community while rendering the services.


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vettangudi bird santuary

Periya Kollukudi Patti Chinna Kollukudi Patti Bird sancturay

The sanctuary is encompassing Periya Kollukudi Patti,  and Vettangudi Patti tanks extending to a total area of 38.4 ha. The only bird sanctuary located in the Sivaganga District was declared as sanctuary in June 1977.It is near karaikudi(32 km)

LOCATION                              

Map

The Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary is located at a distance of 51 Km from Madurai on Madurai - Melur-Tiruppathur road, in Sivagangai District and 32 km from karaikudi. The Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary is located at 10 deg 10' N latitude and 78 deg 20' E longitude. It is located in Vettangudi patti & Periya Kollukudi Patti village of Tiruppathur taluk, Sivagangai District. 

FLORA

The vegetation of the tank is dominated by prosopis; in few locations with babul and on the bund with Tamarind.

FAUNA

This is considered to be the natural breeding habitat for winter Migratory birds such as Open billed stork, White ibis, Grey herons, Night herons, Darters and Spoon bills.

How to go to the bird sanctuary?

The sanctuary is approachable by road. It is located 51 Kms. from Madurai on Madurai - Melur - Tirupathur road.

Nearest Railway Stations are Karaikudi (32 KM). and Madurai (51 KM).

The nearest Airport is Madurai.

ACCCOMMODATION

The nearest accommodation facilities are available in Karaikudi, Tirupathur and Madurai.



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Tourist places around karaikudi

Tourist places in and around karaikudi


pillayarpatti: It is just a few kilometres from karaikudi(15 minutes).It is the temple of lord ganesha.The history of the temple dates back to the  ancient period(1091 AD) and the architecture of the building is very smart.There are  different kind of lamps to light the temlple.The best season to go is from dec25 to jan5.The january 1st day is very famous.The prayer starts  early in the morning. 


kundrakudi:It is near to pillayarpatti.it is the temple of lord muruga.it is located on the hill.There are many poojas  on the thaipoosam day .It usually falls in the month of febrauary or january 

Thousand window house:It lies inside the city.karaikudi is very famous for the giant buildings of the past.Their architecture is very different.They were built in 1950's by the nattukottai chettiars.still now they stand strong without any cracks.but some of buildings are not maintained properly.steps had been taken for the maintenance of the buildings by the indian tourism development board.

Ariyakudi:It is around 6 km from karaikudi.It is near to the karaikudi railway station.It is the temple of lord venkateshwara.It is very ancinet temple.The history is that a business magnet who lived in ariyakudi was deity of the lord venkateshwara.He went to the tirupati(famous temple of lord vankateshwara in andhra pradesh(state of india)).It is far away from ariyakudi.But he often went to tirupati.He helped the poor.He reciting slogas every morning.He prayed the god whole heartedly even in his old age.one day when he went to tirupati he was about to fall as he should climb the hill to get to temple, at that time lord venkatrshwara appeared and he told to build a temple in ariyakudi where he will find four stones in four corners and the temple was built there taking the statue of lord venkateshwara from srirangam(trichy) and the fire was brought from thirumayam(pudukottai)


Thirumayam fort: .The ancient fort was built by Sethupati Vijaya Raghunatha Tevan.Near the fort there is small temple of bairavan.
the caves are built with eminent persons having excellent knowledge in   architecture.At first it was a very small fort .later it was built very big by the next generations of the king  It is just a 30 minute drive from karaikudi 


  

Aravayal(shanmughanathapuram)-It is also famous nagarathar village.there are many big buildings in the village which wre built by the ancient nattukottai chettiars.it is in between karaikudi and devakottai.It has good agricultural land.The Aravayal division of nattukottai chettiars is very famous because of the perfect maintenance of the banglas and buildings built by the ancestors.It is just 45 minutes from karaikudi. Many other places still to be updated....                    



Karaikudi is the bastion of Chettinad culture, captivating the visitor with spectacular mansions, refined woodcarving, and tangy Chettinad cuisine. The Chettiar community, torch-bearers of modern banking, has now laid open several of their magnificent homes, offering unique home-stay insights to the venturing Chettinad spirit of enterprise.

The visitor is welcomed to the family’s history, the quest for success and the drive that has yielded these grandiose buildings, their egg plastering technique…leading on that magnificence to fine silver handicrafts, woven saris, palm leaf baskets and unique hand-made Athangudi tiles.

The immense tourism potential of Chettinad, which has been receiving a large number of foreign tourists, will be utilized to boost the economy of local people through a number of community-based initiatives.

Creating employment opportunities through tourism projects, creating market linkages for artisans of Chettinad region, training for artisans to improve the skill, promoting rural livelihood, and marketing Chettinad cuisine through innovative methods are few of the plans. As a first step towards exploring the avenues for income generation of local people and to sustain the efforts of popularizing the pride of Chettinad, the district administration, with the support of DHAN Foundation, firmed up a community managed rural tourism concept.

The aim is that local people should receive benefits by marketing all Chettinad related items such as Kandanki saris, Athangudi tiles, wood carving works, and other handicrafts. All the efforts would benefit the larger masses of the local community and would bring back the traditional living. The community managed tourism would involve multi stake holders for the holistic approach of poverty reduction, and gender empowerment and invite the migrated citizens to return to live in their own place and bring back the traditional livelihood of the local community that would sustain for generations. The socio-economic development of the host community could be visualized, through the impacts of tourism.

Objectives:

The Overall goal of rural tourism is to create a community-managed rural tourism model through strengthening sustainable livelihoods of the local communities for the preservation and development of local heritage and culture of Chettinad Villages. The immediate objective will be:

1. Exploring the avenues for livelihood promotion and the scope of development in the villages through tourism.
2. Promoting people institutions for sustainability.
3. Identifying the role of different stakeholders in poverty reduction through tourism and involving them.
4. Benefiting the community through significant tourism economy.
5. Nurturing the skills of the community to promote especially skilled persons in the community.

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karaikudi map

karaikudi map

karaikudi totally has 64 revenue villages of which 4 has been declared urban and remaining are rural.

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karaikudi revenue villages map