Best Places to visit in Chennai

Beaches in Chennai

Marina Beach

• This is the second largest beach in the world with With a length of 13 km, including a 6 km promenade

Edward Elliot's Beach / Besant nagar beach

• Less crowded beach.
• Attraction-Karl Schmidt Memorial.

Covelong Beach(Chengalpattu district)

• Distance-35 Km from Chennai,23 Km from Mahabalipuram.
• Activity- windsurfing, swimming.

Thiruvalluvar Nagar Beach/Breezy Beach

• Distance- 9 km

Golden Beach

• Distance-20 km from airport.
• Now it is a private beach.

Akkarai Beach

• Location-Near Golden beach.

Wildlife Spot in Chennai

Arignar Anna Zoological Park

• Distance- 38km
• It also known as  Vandalur zoo.
• It is the largest zoo of India covers nearly 1490 acres of land.
• It spread over 510 hectare with  nearly 1500 species of wildlife.

Madras Crocodile Bank Trust

• Distance- 40 km from Chennai town.
• It is the biggest crocodile sanctuary of India
• You can see 14 species of crocodiles, 10 species of turtles, 3 species of snakes, and 1 species of lizard here.

Guindy National Park and Snake Park

• Distance-12 Km.
• It is 8th smallest national park of India.

Best places of worship in Chennai

Ashtalaxmi Temple

• Location-Near Elliot’s beach.
• This Temple is dedicated to Godess Laxmi.

Marundeeswarar Temple

• Distance- 10 km
• This Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva in the form of Marundeeswar or Aushadeeswarar(Lord of Medicine)

Parthasarathy Temple

• Location-Triplicane (4.5 km).
• This 8th century temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu.
• This temple is built by built by king Narasimhavarman I . 

Kapaleeswarar Temple

• Location-Mylapore(6.5 km)
• This 7th century temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and Godess Parvati in the form of Karpagambal.

St. Thomas Mount 

• Distance- 16 km from the city center.
• This ancient building was built in 1523.
• This beautiful church is dedicated to Saint Thomas.

Thousand Lights Mosque

• Distance-4 km.
• As the assembly hall needed one thousand lights to illuminate,this is the reason behind the name.

Historical places and Museum in Chennai

MGR Memorial

• Distance- 3 km from Chennai,Near Marine beach.
• The memorial was built in 1988 and was inaugurated by Janaki Ramachandran, wife of M.G. Ramachandran.

Government Museum

• Distance- 4 km 
• It is the second oldest museum in India after Indian Museum, Kolkata.
• Established in 1851.
• National art gallery and a public library is inside it.
• Timing-10 am to 5:30 pm.

Fort St.George

• Distance- 1 km 
• It built  under the direction of Francis Day and Andrew Cogon(British East India Company)  in 1640.

Swami Vivekananda’s House

• Location-Near Marine beach.
• It is maintained by Ramakrishna Matha.

Victory War Memorial 

• Distance- 5 km
• Dedicated to the soul, who sacrificed their lives in world war II.
• Timing- 8 am to 6 pm.

Dakshina Chitra Museum

• Distance- 34 km from city , Near Covelong Beach.
• Represents the culture and architecture of South India.

Chennai Rail Museum

• Distance- 10 km from the city center.
• It is spread over 6.25 acres.
• Here is the collection of old times Steam engine.
• It is closed on Monday.

Birla Planetarium

• Location-Kotturpuram (10 km).
• This place is best for Science and astronomy lover.

Other best places to visit in Chennai

Valluvar Kottam

• Location-Vaikuntapuram ( 7 km).
• Dedicated to  Tamil Poet Saint Thiruvalluvar.
• Attraction- There are 133 chapters of his famous work inscribed in this monument.

 

Broken bridge

• Here Adyar river meets the Bay of Bengal.
• This bridge broke in 1977.

Madras High Court

• Location-N Fort Road
• This place is best for architecture lover

 

Mahabalipuram( Kanchipuram district)

• Distance- 57 km
• This historical monuments is from 7th century.

Muttukadu Lake Chennai

• Distance- 31 km from city center and 2 km from Dakshina Chitra 
• Activity- Boating, windsurfing, boating.

 

MGR Film city

• Location-Tharamani(15 km)
• Spread over 70 acres.
• Timing- 8am- 8pm

Fort St. George

•  Distance- 4 km from city center.
• It is the first English fortress in India.
• It is built by the British East India Company in 1653.
• There are two main building named as  St. George museum and St. Mary’s Church.