Rameswaram Travel Guide: The Ramanathaswamy Temple

Rameswaram is the island shrine of the Ramanathaswamy Temple, one of the great stops in the deep south of the Tamil Nadu temple trail, usually paired with Madurai and Kanyakumari on longer itineraries.

• The Ramanathaswamy Temple and its tiered gopuram
• The island town itself

A visit here is typically part of a ten-day-or-longer itinerary that also reaches Kanyakumari, added after Madurai.

November to March is the season: warm, dry and festival-rich. April to June is intensely hot and best avoided.

Rameswaram is reached by private car as part of the wider deep-south leg of the temple trail, usually from Madurai, and often continued on to Kanyakumari.