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Kanchipuram

A temple town in Tamil Nadu that is also India’s best-known silk-saree address: Kanjivaram silk woven with gold and silver zari, a craft carried by an unbroken line of weaving families for some four hundred years.

Gateway: fly into Chennai (Chennai International Airport, about 75 km), then travel onward by road or rail.

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