Shanthi Pullari writes Namaste India Trip’s guides to South India, and also looks after our guides to East and North-East India and to destinations abroad. She has more than twenty-five years in India’s travel industry.

South Indian temple travel has its own rules, and her guides explain them plainly: darshan timings that close in the afternoon, dress codes at Guruvayur and Padmanabhaswamy, the ticket and queue systems at Tirupati, and the order in which Madurai, Rameswaram and Kanyakumari fit into one journey.

Kerala takes up a large part of her work. Munnar, Thekkady, Alleppey, Kumarakom, Kochi, Kovalam and Wayanad each suit different months, and the monsoon changes the experience rather than ending it. Her guides help travellers choose between a houseboat and a lake resort, decide how long to stay in the hills, and travel between regions without long backtracking.

In Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, she covers Chennai, Mahabalipuram, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Ooty and Kodaikanal, as well as Mysore, Coorg and Hampi. Hyderabad and the Andhra pilgrimage routes complete the southern coverage.

Her wider responsibilities include Sikkim, Darjeeling, Meghalaya, Assam, Odisha, Kolkata and the Andaman Islands, and international guides to places such as Dubai, Thailand, Bali, Singapore, Nepal, Bhutan and the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra.

Across all these regions, her guides follow one principle: a well-paced trip, with enough time at each place and practical detail on seasons, customs and transfers. They are written from the questions handled by Namaste India Trip’s travel desk and updated when timings or rules change.