Amateur Traveler, episode 844. Today the amateur traveler talks about temples and palaces,

Goporums and hill stations, dynasties and Dosa, as we go to Tamil Nadu in southern India.

This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about Tamil Nadu.

I'd like to welcome the show Giron Nyack from Exo to Exo Games who's coming to

us from Chennai in the province of Tamil Nadu in India and has come to talk to us about that

region.

Giron, welcome to the show.

Hi Chris, thanks for having me here. I've been listening to this for the last

nine to ten years so really honored to be finally speaking to you. Oh thanks so

much for listening. Curian and I are going to be dealing with something like a one to two second delay,

so if you hear something in the final version where there's odd pauses,

we apologize for the internet, but we are not in charge of it.

And Garen tells me with the pronunciation

of the places in Tamil Nadu he's going to do the heavy lifting so we're going to rely

on him for all the pronunciation which I think we can all agree is the better idea.

Given we're in southern India, southern tip of India, why should someone go to Tamil Nadu?

So Tamil Nadu is where one of India's ancient civilizations started and it's also just a bit of statistics.

It was the number one state in India for domestic tourists in 2020 and the number two state for foreign tourists.

So clearly there is something happening here which makes everyone come here.

So there is something for everyone.

There's heritage, this culture, architecture, shopping and great food.

Excellent.

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