South India is a tourist's paradise with its tropical climate, lush evergreen vegetation, moist, deciduous and montane rain forests. South India is a major center of wildlife & eco tourism. It has invigorating forests with natural landscapes of babbling brooks and beckoning hills. South India offer exciting Jeep safaris into the forests, elephant rides, boat and coracle rides, guided treks, water sports, snorkeling, para sailing and much more. Your trail to this beautiful land will take you to a magnificent past, which will invigorate your senses. Temples of south India are worth visiting. These temples have huge gopurams, gigantic sculptures and more than anything fragrant peaceful atmosphere that will dissolve all your worries. People of South India are warm and welcoming and offer you help at any point. In short, South Indian holiday is like no other.

South India has an illustrious history of two thousand years, which has seen the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. The Satavahanas were the first native Indian rulers to issue their own coins with portraits of their rulers. Pandyas, Cholas and Cheras were the three ancient Tamil kingdoms who was in power in South India until end of the 15th century. The Pallavas were another great south Indian dynasty who ruled between the third century. Kadambas, another dynasty ruled during 345-525 CE. Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, Chalukyas of Kalyani, Kakathyas and Hoysalas were other prominent rulers who made their mark in the South Indias' History.

These South Indian dynasties have contributed a lot to this part of the world South India, despite the fact that these kingdoms constantly fought amongst each other and against external forces that invaded south India. When the European powers arrived during the 16th century CE, the southern kingdoms were not powerful enough to resist the new threat and eventually succumbed to British occupation. The British created the Madras Presidency, which covered most of south India directly administered by the British Raj, and divided the rest into a number of dependent princely states. After Indian independence South India was linguistically divided into the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.