India & South Asia

Tamil Nadu

The great music season, from the front row.

The place

The home of South India's classical music, the thousand-year-old monuments of the Chola kings, bronze cast by the lost-wax method and silk woven in Kanchipuram.

Moments we love

Moments we love.

The December season

Concerts at dusk among families who have come for decades.

Chola country

Thanjavur and Darasuram, a thousand years in stone.

The foundries

Bronze still cast the ninth-century way.

Silk and the table

Kanchipuram looms, banana-leaf lunches.

Best time: November to February
Best for: Music, heritage, craft
Character: Temple towns and the Cauvery delta
Journey: Signature journey

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