The Charming Chettinad
We are greatly enamoured with the small region known as Chettinad or Chettinadu. As the locals like to say, Tamil Nadu is the land of the Tamil people, Chettinadu is the land of the Chettiars. There are few places in south India where a subculture with so many distinctive features has developed and thrived. While Chettinad is still very much a part of Tamil Nadu, several things peculiar to this region make it well worthy of investigation.
What makes this area of note is the existence of a very select group of heritage hotels - 2 in the village of Kanadukathan, one in the district headquarters at Karaikudi along with a handful of others, which allow the visitor to stay in the great comfort while ‘living’ in the heart of a Tamil village. This type of experience can be found in many places in other parts of India - Rajasthan springs immediately to mind - but in the south, it is not so prevalent and this is one of the reasons we recommend Chettinad so strongly.
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