Sankaran Kumar

Sankaran seems to be a good person and was polite with us but unfortunately this was our worst experience with a guide. He was so lazy that he just took us to the main gate of the sites and explained the stuffs then and there from far distance instead accompanying us inside those temples and explaining the stories properly. We have watched other guides there who were so nicely accompanying their customers and explaining the stories as per the places they were passing through. His English wasn’t good enough to understand neither he knows how to narrate/tell stories about the place. We were not expecting him to be pro in English but at least we were expecting to know the history of that place through him properly whether in English/Hindi that’s the reason we hire a guide in such places. We told him on phone that we will start from Puducherry after 12:00 noon and hence will give him a call once we start so that he don’t have to wait for us. We started from Puducherry @ 12:30 hrs and reached to Pancha Ratha @ 15:15 hrs. After which we parked our car, we only bought tickets for us and then he took us to the main gate of Pancha Ratha around 15:30/35 hrs and ended our tour at Shore temple around 18:00 hrs. If we calculate, it was only two and half hour tour he provided with no proper history of the place hence we will not recommend his name to anyone. It was full waste of money, youtube videos shares better information than him.Actually this wasn’t our first experience with a guide, we have hired other guides while visiting other historical places in India like Hampi, Golconda Fort & Taj Mahal and we were very much happy & satisfied with those guides. The way they took us to all the places and explained each and everything so precisely & beautifully that you will fall in love with History and those places.