South india includes eight states and union territories in the south India.
Regions
States
places
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- 1 Visakhapatnam
City in Andhra Pradesh - 2 Amaravati The new capital (under construction) of Andhra Pradesh
- 3 Hyderabad
Capital of Telangana (and Andhra Pradesh by 2024); City of pearls with centuries-old bazaars - 4 Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), capital of Karnataka on the Deccan plateau
- 5 Mysore historical capital of an independent princely state in the Western Ghats
- 6 Chennai (formerly Madras), capital of Tamil Nadu
- 7 Kanchipuram historical city with important pilgrimage temples
- 8 Pondicherry former French colony on the Coromandel coast with buildings from the colonial era
- 9 Thanjavur one of the most important centers of South Indian art, architecture and religion with the Great Temples of the Chola Dynasty (UNESCO World Heritage)
- 10 Madurai cultural, religious and educational center in southern Tamil Nadu
- 11 Coimbatore
- 12 Kochi (formerly Cochin), historic port city on the Malabar coast
- 13 Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum), capital of Kerala
- 14 Kavaratti Inhabited and developed island in Lakshadweep
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Other goals
background
language
Various languages of the Dravidian language family are spoken in southern India (e.g. Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam), which differ fundamentally from the Indo-European languages of the north. Many residents of South India feel that the predominance of Hindi from the north is paternalistic and therefore reject it. On the other hand, you will find significantly more people in the south who speak English. The proportion of English speakers ranges from 15% in Andhra Pradesh to 32% in Kerala. A positive outlier is Puducherry with 54%.
getting there
Special travel permits are required e.g. for the Lakkadives (Lakshadweep Islands). The permits must be obtained in India before entering the named state. The authorization requirement for travel to the Andaman Islands has been lifted. Registration upon arrival is required. The Nicobar Islands are still inaccessible to tourists.
The largest international airports in the region are the 1 Bengaluru airport
(IATA: BLR) and the 2 Chennai airport(IATA: MAA), where there are also direct flights from Central Europe. This is followed by the 3 Hyderabad Airport(IATA: HYD) and the 4 Kochi Airport(IATA: COK)which also have numerous international connections.
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mobility
- Indian Railways regional companies
- State intercity bus companies
- Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation
- Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation
- Kerala State Road Transport Corporation
- Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation
- State Express Transport Corporation (Tamil Nadu)
Tourist Attractions
- World heritage sites
- 2 Great Temple of the Chola Dynasty (महान चोल मंदिर).World Heritage: Hindu temples from the 9th to 13th centuries.
- 3 Hampi (हम्पी).World Heritage: Former capital of the Vijayanagara empire with huge temples, namely the Virupaksha temple.
- 4 Chalukya temples of Pattadakal (पत्तदकल).World Heritage: Hindu and Jain temples from the 7th and 8th centuries.
- 5 Nilgiri Mountain Railway (नीलगिरि पर्वतीय रेल).World Heritage: Built in the 19th century, a 46 km long narrow-gauge mountain railway between Ooty and Mettupalayam.
- Western GhatsWorld natural heritage: Of the 39 Western Ghats protected areas of various types with very high biodiversity, ten are in Karnataka, 19 in Kerala and six in Tamil Nadu (also four in Maharashtra / western India).
In South India they are spatially distributed over six sub-clusters:- Kudremukh Sub-Cluster (Karnataka)
- 6 Agumbe forest reserve
- 7 Balahalli Forest Reserve
- 8 Someshwara Game Reserve
- 9 Someshwara Forest Reserve
- 10 Kudremukh National Park
- 6 Agumbe forest reserve
- Talacauvery sub-cluster (Karnataka / Kerala)
- 11 Pushpagiri Game Reserve
- 12 Talakaveri Game Reserve
- 13 Padinalknad forest reserve
- 14 Kerti forest reserve
- 15 Brahmagiri Game Reserve
- 16 Aralam Wildlife Reserve
- 11 Pushpagiri Game Reserve
- Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (Kerala / Tamil Nadu)
- 17 Silent Valley National Park
- 18 Mukurthi National Park
- 19 New Amarambalam Forest Reserve
- 20 Kalikavu Range Forest Reserve
- 21 Attapadi forest reserve
- 17 Silent Valley National Park
- Anamalai Sub-Cluster (Kerala / Tamil Nadu)
- 22 Eravikulam National Park
- 23 Grass Hills National Park
- 24 Karian Shola National Park
- 25 Parambikulam Wildlife Reserve
- 26 Chinnar Game Reserve
- 27 Mankulam Range Forest
- 28 Anamudi Shola National Park
- 22 Eravikulam National Park
- Periyar Sub-Cluster (Kerala / Tamil Nadu)
- 29 Periyar National Park
- 30 Ranni Forestry Department
- 31 Konni Forestry Department
- 32 Achankovil forest department
- 33 Srivilliputhur Game Reserve
- 34 Tirunelveli (north) forest (part)
- 29 Periyar National Park
- Agasthyamalai Sub-Cluster (Kerala / Tamil Nadu)
- 35 Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
- 36 Shendurney Game Reserve
- 37 Neyyar Game Reserve
- 38 Peppara Wildlife Reserve
- 39 Kulathupuzha Range Forest Reserve
- 40 Palode Range Forest Reserve
- 35 Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
- Kudremukh Sub-Cluster (Karnataka)
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activities
kitchen
For the foreign guest it may seem particularly strange that in South India you often eat food served on banana leaves with the right (and exclusively this one) hand eats. There is also a sink and soap available in every restaurant, which you should use before eating. The waiter will then place a folded banana leaf on the table. He or you unfold that yourself. Then water is poured onto the inside just opened. You wash the leaf with your right hand and brush off the water, ideally on the floor - if possible not on your lap. Then again and again waiters come by with potties and give the guest food on his sheet, similar to the Thalis in northern India. As a rule, re-serving is carried out until the guest is satisfied.
nightlife
security
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climate
In contrast to northern India, which is only influenced by the summer monsoon, this climate effect in southern India is also superimposed by the winter monsoon, which can last until December. In practice, the rainy season lasts longer than in northern India. A rough rule of thumb is: the further you are from the Coromandel coast away and the further north you go, the earlier the monsoon ends. As with any trip, climate diagrams should be studied before booking. But even then you should be aware that there can be deviations from the norm. The monsoons can last longer and possibly have an impact on the subsequent journey, such as the floods in Chennai at the beginning of December 2015 (see e.g. the report in NZZ).
It also gets extremely hot in India before the onset of the monsoons. The month before the start of the monsoons is usually the hottest of the year (usually May).
Although South India is a classic t-shirt country, you should also take at least one sweater or jacket with you for a possible windy and cooler evening or a rickshaw ride at dawn. Also, if you are in the higher elevations of the Western Ghats don't want to underestimate the impact of the height. So it can, but rarely happens in Ooty sometimes cool down below 0 ° C at night. Much of this is a question of habit: In India you will meet more people with earmuffs in the “cooler” season than in Central Europe in winter. Scarves and hats are also selling well in India. In Ooty there are people who wear hats or scarfs but walk barefoot.
