BEACH & WATERFALLS IN CHENNAI
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| V.G.P Golden Beach |
'VGP Universal Kingdom' is an event congregation situated in East Coast Road in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The recreation center offering little rides amid the beginning of its history turned into an undeniable entertainment mecca in 1997. The recreation center gives a few fun and enterprise rides for kids, youth and grown-ups. VGP 2000 thousand years tower, Water falls, Paneer post and statueman are a portion of the principle attractions. The recreation center is possessed by VGP Group of Companies established by V. G. Panneerdas and V.G.Ravidas is its overseeing executive.
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| Covelog Beach |
(Covelong) is an angling town in Chennai, India, 40 kilometers south of Chennai, on the East Coast Road on the way to Mahabalipuram. Covelong was a port town created by the Nawab of Carnatic, Saadat Ali. It was assumed control by the French in 1746, and wrecked by the British in 1752. The Dutch fabricated a fortress in Covelong amid the provincial circumstances, which today has been made the Taj Fisherman's Cove, a private extravagance shoreline resort. An old Catholic church on the shoreline is another fascination. There is likewise a Dharga and sanctuary close-by the shoreline.
Kovalam Beach,Chennai - Mid Sea Diving. Covelong Beach is one of only a handful few places in the East Coast where wind surfing happens. There is a surf school with resort in the shoreline.
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| Marina Beach |
Marina Beach is a characteristic urban shoreline in the city of Chennai, India, along the Bay of Bengal. The shoreline keeps running from close Fort St. George in the north to Foreshore Estate in the south, a separation of 6.5 km (4.0 mi), making it the longest characteristic urban shoreline in the nation and one of the world's longest. The Marina is fundamentally sandy, dissimilar to the short, rough developments that make up the Juhu Beach in Mumbai. The normal width of the shoreline is 300 m (980 ft) and the width at the greatest extend is 437 m (1,434 ft). Washing and swimming at the Marina Beach are lawfully disallowed due to the perils, as the undercurrent is extremely turbulent. It is a standout amongst the most swarmed shorelines in the nation and pulls in around 30,000 guests a day amid weekdays and 50,000 guests a day amid the ends of the week and on vacations. Amid summer months, around 15,000 to 20,000 individuals visit the shoreline every day.
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| Elliots Beach |
Elliot's Beach (prominently known as "Besant Nagar Beach" or "Bessie") is situated in Besant Nagar, Chennai, India. It frames the end-purpose of the Marina Beach shore, and is named after Edward Elliot, Governor of Madras.[citation needed]. It has the Velankanni Church and the Ashtalakshmi Kovil adjacent. In the provincial time, it was a genuinely selective place restricted to white individuals. Starting at 2016, there are numerous eateries close to the shoreline. There is a police station at the shoreline and the group is policed by method for off-road vehicles (ATVs) to anticipate suffocating incidents. In 2010, there were 11 suffocating cases detailed off Elliots Beach. In August 2012, the legislature authorized two all the more off-road vehicles for watching the shoreline.
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| Sadras Beach |
Modern Sadras was set up as a major aspect of Dutch Coromandel in the seventeenth century, which was even before place for weaving superfine muslin fabric for fare other than Pearl and consumable oil. The sublime Sadras Fort, worked for business purposes by the Dutch, is an unlimited compound encasing a colossal storage facility, stable and structures used to mount elephants; shockingly just a single of these structures survives. The fortification was struck by the British in 1818 and went under the control of the British East India Company. It is currently kept up by the Archeological Survey of India in endeavors to contain advance frailty of this awesome landmark. From 2003 noteworthy rebuilding of the harmed fortress was done prompting to may archeological discoveries. The principal fight between British East India Company and the Dutch began here as Battle of Sadras. The fortress incorporates a burial ground with many perfectly finished graves that date to in the vicinity of 1620 and 1769.
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| Nagalapuram Waterfalls |
Nagalapuram the sanctuary town is worked at the season of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara Empire administration in memory of his mom Nagala Devi. Consequently, it got to be Sri Nagalapuram. Prior to the change of its name to Nagalapuram, this town was known as Harigandapuram.
Kailasanatha Kona is situated in Narayanavanam Mandal, Chittor Distric, Andhra Pradesh. Kailasantha Kona is outstanding as a Kaliasa Kona. Delightful waterfalls are the principle resource of this place, which are rich in minerals and have therapeutic forces for human body. A sanctuary of Lord Shiva and Parvathi is seen nearby.Narayanavanam is where Lord Venkateswara wedded Sri Padmavathi. This marriage occurred under control of Lord Shiva for three months. To take look after this duty Lord Shiva was in the Narayanavanam for an entire day and Lord Shiva has picked one place like a Kailasam close-by to remain the total night. That place is Kailasakona which is situated with waterfalls and serene nature.
Ubbalamudugu Falls (additionally called Tada Falls) is a waterfall situated toward the North of Oneness Temple and Sricity in the Chittoor locale of India. Going under the Buchinaidu kandriga and Varadaiahpalem mandals the falls are found 80 kilometers from Chennai and 35 kilometers from Srikalahasti. The falls are situated in a woods called the Siddulaiah Kona. The connection to Lord Shiva guarantees that the celebration of Maha Shivaratri is a typical time for individuals to visit.
Amirthi Zoological Park is a zoo in Tiruvannamalai District in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu. It was opened in 1967 and is around 55 kilometers from area home office Tiruvannamalai city and 25 kilometers from the Vellore city. The range of the recreation center is 25 hectares and one can discover lovely water falls. Half of this wilderness is cleared to fill in as a vacationer spot while the other half is created as an untamed life asylum. A trek for a kilometer drives one to a full perspective of occasional waterfall. The inflow of sightseers is all the more just amid the occasions. Creatures at the recreation center incorporate spotted deer, mongoose, hedgehog, foxes, reason monkeys, red headed parrots, love flying creatures, tortoises, peacock, crocodiles, wild felines, hawks, ducks, pigeons, wild parrots, rabbits, and pythons
The Temple at Talakona water falls is a Siva Temple known as "SIDDHESWARA SWAMY TEMPLE". The god is called as 'Siddheswara'. According to the Local individuals, the sanctuary was manufactured somewhere in the range of 140 years ago.The SIVA LINGA in the sanctuary was brought from the destroyed sanctuary of Rayavaripalli, a town in Pulicherla Mandal, On long time past days there was a custom that if any new sanctuary is developed, rather than make another Siva Linga, can introduce old one which lies without Pooja in demolished Temples. In light of this custom the SIVA LINGA was brought from Rayavaripalli destroyed sanctuary. The relics of the destroyed sanctuary can be seen today likewise in the farming fields of Rayavaripalli. That field is called as " Lingaakaaram kaada kayya", till today, which implies a bit of rural field close Siva Lingam. The Rayavaripalii sanctuary was obliterated and taken away the abundance of the sanctuary by Hyder Ali troops on the on the way to Arcot in mid eighteenth century.
Besant Nagar is one of Chennai's neighborhoods, named after the prominent woman theosophist Annie Besant. It is situated on the shore of Bay of Bengal toward the east, and limited by Thiruvanmiyur toward the South, Adyar toward the West and Adyar Estuary toward the North. The Theosophical Society, an overall body whose essential target is Universal Brotherhood, established in 1875, has its home office around there really popular for its Banyan trees and quiet settings. It is a piece of Chennai which is possessed by numerous celebrated identities and rich nationals. Nearby are numerous eateries, bistros, shops and boutiques. The principle fascination is the Elliot's Beach, named after Edward Elliot, Governor of Madras. It frames the end-purpose of the Marina Beach shore. It has the Annai Velankanni Church and the Ashtalakshmi Temple along the shore and is now and then nicknamed 'Bessie'. In the frontier time it was a genuinely select place restricted to ostracizes.
The East India Company (EIC), which had entered India around 1600 for exchanging exercises, had started authorized exchanging at Surat, which was its underlying bastion. Notwithstanding, to secure its exchange lines and business interests in the zest exchange, it felt the need of a port nearer to the Malaccan Straits, and prevailing with regards to obtaining a bit of waterfront land, initially called Chennirayarpattinam or Channapatnam, from a Vijayanagar chieftain named Damerla Chennappa Nayaka situated in Chandragiri, where the Company started the development of a harbor and a fortress. The stronghold was finished on 23 April 1644 at a cost of £3000, corresponding with St George's Day, celebrated to pay tribute to the supporter holy person of England. The fortification, consequently initiated Fort St George, confronted the ocean and some angling towns, and it soon turned into the center point of trader movement. It brought forth another settlement territory called George Town (truly alluded to as Black Town), which developed to encompass the towns and prompted to the arrangement of the city of Madras. It likewise settled English impact over the Carnatic and to keep the lords of Arcot and Srirangapatna, and also the French strengths based at Pondichéry, under control. In 1665, after the EIC got expression of the arrangement of the new French East India Company, the fortification was reinforced and extended while its battalion was expanded.
The sanctuary was initially worked by the Pallavas in the eighth century, accordingly extended by Cholas and later by the Vijayanagara lords in the fifteenth century. The sanctuary has a few engravings dating from the eighth century in Tamil and Telugu probably from the time of Dantivarman, who was a Vishnu devotee. Thirumangai Alvar, the ninth century alvar additionally characteristics the working of sanctuary to the Pallava king. From the inside references of the sanctuary, it creates the impression that the sanctuary was reestablished amid 1564 CE when new altars were built. In later years, gifts of towns and greenery enclosures have advanced the temple. The sanctuary likewise has engravings about the Pallava ruler, Nandivarman of the eighth Century.
The sanctuary was widely worked amid the Chola period and a great deal of engravings going back to a similar period are found here. The external most mandapam is packed with figures of different types of Vishnu, particularly the symbols. One can likewise observe engravings of Dantivarma Pallava of the eighth century, Chola and Vijayanagara in the sanctuary. The main structural development of the sanctuary occurred amid the rule of the Pallavas (Tondaiyar Kon) as strikingly depicted by Tirumangai Azhwar. Reminiscent of this is the engraving of the Pallava King Dantivarman (796-847 A.D.), which is safeguarded in the sanctuary. The sanctuary saw a noteworthy development amid the govern of the Vijayanagar rulers like Sadasiva Raya, Sriranga Raya and Venkatapati Raya II (sixteenth century). Numerous subshrines and pillared structures (mandapas) like the Tiruvaimozhi Mandapa were included.
Velankanni is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam region in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, 350 km south of Chennai (Madras) and 12 km south of Nagapattinam. Once a port that exchanged with Rome and Greece, the minor business focus bit by bit lost its significance to the bigger city of Nagapattinam. The trench worked to connection this town with Vedaranyam still deceives the west. The Vellayar, a minor branch of the Cauvery River, runs south of the town and releases into the ocean. The town was among the most exceedingly awful hit by the torrent brought about by the 2004 Indian Ocean tremor. The town is home to a huge Roman Catholic Latin Rite hallowed place called the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health. Velankanni has been picked as one of the legacy urban communities for HRIDAY - Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana plan of Government of India.
Thousand Lights (Tamil: ஆயிரம் விளக்கு), a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the biggest mosques in the nation and is an adored place of love and azadari for Shia.
Semmozhi Poonga (genuinely signified "Set up Language Park") is a nursery in Chennai set up by the horticulture authority of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The garden was opened on 24 November 2010 by then supervisor Minister Dr.M. Karunanidhi and is the main nursery in the city. The garden is arranged in the Cathedral Road–Anna Salai crossing point, opposite the American Consulate, on the current Drive-in Woodlands Hotel. Fusing a locale of 20 areas of land (320 grounds), it was worked at a cost of ₹ 80 million. More than 500 sorts of plants are being produced in the range, despite the 80 trees that was by then in nearness in the midst of the change of the entertainment focus, some of them being more than 100 years old. The garden houses a part of the outstanding vivid vegetation and unprecedented plant species, helpful and sweet-noticing herbs. Expansive parts of the entrancing plants are remote produced using countries like China and Thailand, including an a lot of bonsai collections of ficus microcarpa and ficus ginseng.
Royapuram angling harbor, otherwise called Chennai angling harbor or Kasimedu angling harbor, is one of the significant angling justification for getting fishes and scavangers situated at Kasimedu in the Royapuram territory of Chennai, India. The harbor is found north of the Chennai Port and is under the regulatory control of the Chennai Port Trust. The harbor is additionally a shipbuilding office, predominantly constructing angling vessels. The closest railroad station is the Royapuram Railway Station. The harbor can suit 575 angling vessels, and by 2013 the quantity of water crafts has gone up to 1,395.
Arignar Anna Zoological Park (shortened AAZP), otherwise called the Vandalur Zoo, is a zoological garden situated in Vandalur, a suburb in the southwestern piece of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, around 31 kilometers (19 mi) from the downtown area and 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Chennai Airport. It is India's biggest zoo as far as region covering 1,300 sections of land. Its past area was set up in 1855 and was the main open zoo in India. It is partnered with the Central Zoo Authority of India. Spread over a zone of 602 hectares (1,490 sections of land), including a 92.45-hectare (228.4-section of land) save and restoration focus, the recreation center is the biggest zoological garden in India. The zoo houses 2,553 types of vegetation crosswise over 1,265 sections of land (512 ha). Starting at 2012 the recreation center houses around 1,500 wild species, including 46 imperiled species, in its 160 enclosures. As of 2010, there were around 47 types of well evolved creatures, 63 types of feathered creatures, 31 types of reptiles, 5 types of creatures of land and water, 25 types of fishes, and 10 types of creepy crawlies in the park. The recreation center, with a target to be a vault of the state's fauna, is credited with being the second untamed life haven in Tamil Nadu after Mudumalai National Park.
Vivekanandar Illam (Tamil: விவேகானந்தர் இல்லம்) (or Vivekananda House, likewise called Ice House (Tamil: ஐஸ் ஹவுஸ்), Castle Kernan, and so forth.) is a structure at Chennai, India, utilized by the British to store ice brought from North America for around 30 years. Ice King Frederic Tudor assembled an ice house at Madras confronting the Bay of Bengal in 1842 as a component of his ice business. Around 1880, the business caved in and the building was sold to Biligiri Iyengar of Madras. Biligiri Iyengar was an acclaimed advocate in the Madras High Court and was genuinely well-to-do in those circumstances. He redesigned the house, renamed it Castle Kernan after his companion, Justice Kernan in the Madras High Court and utilized it as a residence. At the point when Swami Vivekananda went by Madras in 1897 after his arrival from the West, Iyengar, being a supporter of Swami Vivekananda, made him remain at the Ice House. Vivekananda remained at the Ice House between 6 February 1897 to 14 February 1897. Amid his nine-day stay, he shook India's national awareness through his searing addresses at Chennai. At the point when Vivekananda was going to withdraw, he consented to his devotees' demand to set up a perpetual focus at the Ice House.
The library's beginnings backpedal to 1860, when Captain Jesse Mitchell set up a little library as a component of the Madras Museum in Madras, capital of the Madras Presidency in the British Indian Empire. Several books had been observed to be surplus in the libraries of Haileybury College (where government employees of the Indian Civil Service were prepared in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire) and these were sent to the Madras Government, which thusly gave them over to the Madras Museum. Considered on the lines of the British Museum Library, it was a piece of the Madras Museum until 1890, when the requirement for a free open library incited the then Governor of Madras, Lord Connemara, to establish the framework on 22 March 1890.[citation needed] It opened in 1896 and was named after Lord Connemara (by then the previous Governor), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. The library was in fact basically free: A little store must be paid yet this was refundable. It turned into the state focal library in 1948, with the establishment of Madras Public Libraries Act 1948, which was the initially deliberate exertion in India to systematize, structure, generally, co-ordinate and arrange open library administrations. This is one of the Asia's biggest libraries
Guindy National Park is a 2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi) Protected region of Tamil Nadu, situated in Chennai, South India, is the eighth littlest National Park of India and one of the not very many national parks arranged inside a city. The recreation center is an augmentation of the grounds encompassing Raj Bhavan, once known as the 'Guindy Lodge', the official home of the Governor of Tamil Nadu, India. It amplifies somewhere inside the senator's bequest, encasing wonderful woods, scour terrains, lakes and streams. The recreation center has a part in both ex-situ and in-situ protection and is home to 400 blackbucks, 2,000 spotted deers, 24 jackals, a wide assortment of snakes, geckos, tortoises and more than 130 types of fowls, 14 types of well evolved creatures, more than 60 types of butterflies and bugs each, an abundance of various spineless creatures—grasshoppers, ants, termites, crabs, snails, slugs, scorpions, bugs, night crawlers, millipedes, and so forth. These are free-running fauna and live with the insignificant of impedance from individuals. The main significant administration action is assurance as in whatever other in-situ preservation region. The recreation center pulls in more than 700,000 guests consistently.
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Center for Herpetology (MCBT) is a reptile zoo and herpetology inquire about station, found 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of the city of Chennai, in condition of Tamil Nadu, India. The inside is both an enrolled trust and a perceived zoo under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and is India's driving establishment for herpeto faunal preservation, research and instruction. The bank is the main crocodile reproducing focus in Asia and goes under the domain of the Central Zoo Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. It was set up with the point of sparing three Indian jeopardized types of crocodile—the bog or mugger crocodile, the saltwater crocodile, and the gharial, which at the season of establishing of the trust were all nearing eradication.
The CrocBank grounds are secured by seaside ridge timberland giving a safe house to local natural life, including huge rearing settlements of water fowls and a protected settling shoreline for olive ridley ocean turtles. The high aquifer on the sandy drift gives adequate water supply and the vicinity to the significant vacationer goal of Mahabalipuram guarantees yearly visitation. The middle is the greatest crocodile asylum in India. It covers 8.5 sections of land (3.4 ha) and had more than 450,000 guests in 2007. The inside has one of the world's biggest accumulations of crocodiles and gators and has reared 5,000 crocodiles and crocs speaking to 14 of the 23 existing species, including the three crocodile species, all thought to be jeopardized, that are local to India. As of 2011, the CrocBank has an aggregate of 2,483 creatures, including 14 types of crocodiles, 10 types of turtles, 3 types of snakes, and 1 types of reptile.
DakshinaChitra ("a photo of the south") is a living-history exhibition hall in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu, devoted to South Indian legacy and culture. It is found 25 kilometers (16 mi) toward the south of Chennai. Opened to people in general on 14 December 1996, the gallery was established and is being overseen by the Madras Craft Foundation (MCF). The MCF was built up in 1984. Deborah Thiagarajan, an Indian workmanship student of history of American beginning, administers the exhibition hall. The historical center is based on 10 sections of land (4.0 ha) of land gone up against a 33-year rent from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Created as a legacy town, DakshinaChitra has a variety of showcases delineating the life example of Indians in the conditions of South India. The shows depict the living convictions of workmanship, people performing-expressions, art and design of India, specifically of South Indian conventions.
Cholamandal Artists' Village, built up in 1966, is the biggest specialists' cooperative in India. Its craftsmen are credited for the Madras Movement of Art (1950s–1980s), which got innovation to workmanship South India. Their work is broadly perceived as a portion of the best craftsmanship delivered in after war India and is demonstrated consistently in displays the nation over. A few Cholamandal specialists have likewise appeared in Europe, the United States and South America. In the town Injambakkam, 9 km from Chennai, India, it has more than 20 inhabitant painters and stone workers, who live as a group and pool their aptitudes. They run the Artists Handicrafts Association, an agreeable which deals with the town and offer of works through the lasting presentation at the perplexing, which incorporates artworks, outlines, earthenware/stone/metal models, batiks and painstaking work and so on., making the town a self-supporting substance. The people group was established by K. C. S. Paniker, the vital of the Madras School of Arts, alongside his understudies and a couple of craftsmen related with the school. It utilized the `art-meets-make' approach where craftsmen made painstaking work professionally as they sought after their specialty. By the 1970s, the town got to be distinctly independent and developed into a standout amongst the most essential meeting places for worldwide craftsmen in India. Today, it is one of only a handful few craftsman driven developments in India. Four decades on, it is one of only a handful couple of craftsmen's states on the planet to survive effectively and its establishment stays one of the "10 greatest workmanship minutes" in India.
Mamallapuram, otherwise called Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram area in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu, around 60 km south of the city of Chennai. It is an antiquated noteworthy town and was a clamoring seaport amid the season of Periplus (first century CE) and Ptolemy (140 CE), from where old Indian brokers cruised to nations of South East Asia. By the seventh century it was a port city of the South Indian administration of the Pallavas. It has a gathering of havens cut out of shake in the seventh and eighth hundreds of years: rathas (sanctuaries as chariots), mandapas (give in asylums), mammoth outside shake reliefs, for example, the well known Descent of the Ganges, and the Shore Temple, with a large number of figures to the transcendence of Shiva. The Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram has been named an UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has a normal rise of 12 meters (39 feet). The cutting edge town of Mahabalipuram was built up by the British Raj in 1827.
B. M. Birla Planetarium is a substantial planetarium in Chennai giving a virtual voyage through the night sky and holding infinite shows on an extraordinarily punctured hemispherical aluminum internal vault. It is situated at Kotturpuram in the Periyar Science and Technology Center grounds which houses eight displays, to be specific, Physical Science, Electronics and Communication, Energy, Life Science, Innovation, Transport, International Dolls and Children and Materials Science, with more than 500 shows. Worked in 1988 in the memory of the colossal industrialist and visionary of India B. M. Birla, it is the most present day planetarium in India. There are two other Birla Planetariums in India, viz., the one in Kolkata known as M. P. Birla Planetarium and the other in Hyderabad, Tiruchirapalli and Coimbatore.
MGM Dizzee World is an amusement stop situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated in East Coast Road. The recreation center has log flume, Ferris wheel, arachnid turn, crazy ride, the amusing mountain, dashing autos, super trooper, a water world and it additionally has extraordinary occasional shows. It is claimed by MGM Group of Companies. The recreation center likewise has unique elements, for example, snow valley encounter presented amid the mid 2000s; a simulated snow give snow-topped mountain and a snow man.
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| Kailasakona Waterfalls |
Kailasanatha Kona is situated in Narayanavanam Mandal, Chittor Distric, Andhra Pradesh. Kailasantha Kona is outstanding as a Kaliasa Kona. Delightful waterfalls are the principle resource of this place, which are rich in minerals and have therapeutic forces for human body. A sanctuary of Lord Shiva and Parvathi is seen nearby.Narayanavanam is where Lord Venkateswara wedded Sri Padmavathi. This marriage occurred under control of Lord Shiva for three months. To take look after this duty Lord Shiva was in the Narayanavanam for an entire day and Lord Shiva has picked one place like a Kailasam close-by to remain the total night. That place is Kailasakona which is situated with waterfalls and serene nature.
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| Todafalls/Ubbalamdugu Falls |
Ubbalamudugu Falls (additionally called Tada Falls) is a waterfall situated toward the North of Oneness Temple and Sricity in the Chittoor locale of India. Going under the Buchinaidu kandriga and Varadaiahpalem mandals the falls are found 80 kilometers from Chennai and 35 kilometers from Srikalahasti. The falls are situated in a woods called the Siddulaiah Kona. The connection to Lord Shiva guarantees that the celebration of Maha Shivaratri is a typical time for individuals to visit.
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| Amirthi Zoological Park |
Amirthi Zoological Park is a zoo in Tiruvannamalai District in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu. It was opened in 1967 and is around 55 kilometers from area home office Tiruvannamalai city and 25 kilometers from the Vellore city. The range of the recreation center is 25 hectares and one can discover lovely water falls. Half of this wilderness is cleared to fill in as a vacationer spot while the other half is created as an untamed life asylum. A trek for a kilometer drives one to a full perspective of occasional waterfall. The inflow of sightseers is all the more just amid the occasions. Creatures at the recreation center incorporate spotted deer, mongoose, hedgehog, foxes, reason monkeys, red headed parrots, love flying creatures, tortoises, peacock, crocodiles, wild felines, hawks, ducks, pigeons, wild parrots, rabbits, and pythons
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| Talakona Waterfalls |
The Temple at Talakona water falls is a Siva Temple known as "SIDDHESWARA SWAMY TEMPLE". The god is called as 'Siddheswara'. According to the Local individuals, the sanctuary was manufactured somewhere in the range of 140 years ago.The SIVA LINGA in the sanctuary was brought from the destroyed sanctuary of Rayavaripalli, a town in Pulicherla Mandal, On long time past days there was a custom that if any new sanctuary is developed, rather than make another Siva Linga, can introduce old one which lies without Pooja in demolished Temples. In light of this custom the SIVA LINGA was brought from Rayavaripalli destroyed sanctuary. The relics of the destroyed sanctuary can be seen today likewise in the farming fields of Rayavaripalli. That field is called as " Lingaakaaram kaada kayya", till today, which implies a bit of rural field close Siva Lingam. The Rayavaripalii sanctuary was obliterated and taken away the abundance of the sanctuary by Hyder Ali troops on the on the way to Arcot in mid eighteenth century.
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| Nettukuppam Beach |
Nettukuppam Beach is arranged at practically northern-most tip of Chennai; Nettukuppam appreciates the lone ensemble with the spotless ocean water and cool winds. For the most part betrayed and not being gone to much by the general population with the exception of local people, If you are a photography-buff, this place is for you. The shoreline offers a vantage point from where one can appreciate the contemporary and previous history of the city. It doesn't just offer the recorded viewpoint additionally, one can see the geological contrasts over the period. Nettukuppam Pier or the broken scaffold is the renowned spot for local people to stay there appreciate the shower of the water waves that hit the wharfs of the extension. Nonattendance of fast-food merchants and numerous guests aside from on ends of the week make the shoreline spotless and the water is additionally cleaner contrasted with different shorelines of Chennai.
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| Besant Nagar Beach |
Besant Nagar is one of Chennai's neighborhoods, named after the prominent woman theosophist Annie Besant. It is situated on the shore of Bay of Bengal toward the east, and limited by Thiruvanmiyur toward the South, Adyar toward the West and Adyar Estuary toward the North. The Theosophical Society, an overall body whose essential target is Universal Brotherhood, established in 1875, has its home office around there really popular for its Banyan trees and quiet settings. It is a piece of Chennai which is possessed by numerous celebrated identities and rich nationals. Nearby are numerous eateries, bistros, shops and boutiques. The principle fascination is the Elliot's Beach, named after Edward Elliot, Governor of Madras. It frames the end-purpose of the Marina Beach shore. It has the Annai Velankanni Church and the Ashtalakshmi Temple along the shore and is now and then nicknamed 'Bessie'. In the frontier time it was a genuinely select place restricted to ostracizes.
HISTORICAL PLACES IN CHENNAI
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| Fort St.George |
The East India Company (EIC), which had entered India around 1600 for exchanging exercises, had started authorized exchanging at Surat, which was its underlying bastion. Notwithstanding, to secure its exchange lines and business interests in the zest exchange, it felt the need of a port nearer to the Malaccan Straits, and prevailing with regards to obtaining a bit of waterfront land, initially called Chennirayarpattinam or Channapatnam, from a Vijayanagar chieftain named Damerla Chennappa Nayaka situated in Chandragiri, where the Company started the development of a harbor and a fortress. The stronghold was finished on 23 April 1644 at a cost of £3000, corresponding with St George's Day, celebrated to pay tribute to the supporter holy person of England. The fortification, consequently initiated Fort St George, confronted the ocean and some angling towns, and it soon turned into the center point of trader movement. It brought forth another settlement territory called George Town (truly alluded to as Black Town), which developed to encompass the towns and prompted to the arrangement of the city of Madras. It likewise settled English impact over the Carnatic and to keep the lords of Arcot and Srirangapatna, and also the French strengths based at Pondichéry, under control. In 1665, after the EIC got expression of the arrangement of the new French East India Company, the fortification was reinforced and extended while its battalion was expanded.
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| Kapaleeshwar Temple |
Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Mylapore, Chennai is a sanctuary of Shiva situated in Mylapore, Chennai in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu. The type of Shiva's associate Parvati loved at this sanctuary is called Karpagambal is from Tamil, ("Goddess of the Wish-Yielding Tree"). The sanctuary was worked around the seventh century CE in Dravidian architecture. As indicated by the Puranas, Shakti loved Shiva as a peacock, giving the vernacular name Mylai (Mayilāi) to the range that created around the sanctuary - mayil is Tamil for "peacock". Shiva is worshiped as Kapaleeswarar, and is spoken to by the lingam. His partner Parvati is portrayed as Karpagambal. The managing divinity is venerated in the seventh century Tamil Saiva sanctioned work, the Tevaram, composed by Tamil holy person artists referred to as the nayanars and delegated Paadal Petra Sthalam. The sanctuary has various holy places, with those of Kapaleeswarar and Karpagambal being the most unmistakable. The sanctuary complex houses numerous corridors. The sanctuary has six day by day ceremonies at different circumstances from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and four yearly celebrations on its logbook. The Arubathimooval celebration celebrated amid the Tamil month of Panguni is the most noticeable celebration in the sanctuary.
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| San Thome Church |
St Thomas, one of the twelve followers of Jesus, touched base at Muziris in present-day Kerala state in India from Judea in A.D. 52 and lectured between A.D. 52 and A.D 72, when he was martyred on St. Thomas Mount. A larger part of early works indicate St. Thomas' biblical service in India particularly Cranganore along the Malabar drift from 52 A.D to 68 A.D. His adventure through Kerala brought about various transformations. Subsequent to putting in 10 years on the Malabar drift he is said to have traversed the Deccan Plateau, Arriving in Mylapore in 68 A.D. The surrender at little mount used to be his most loved lecturing spot. A 2000 years of age failing to dry, inexplicable stream of water on shake face is said to be a sparkling case of the witness' perfect adventures. The congregation on St. Thomas mount was worked by Portuguese in 1547 to check the spot here. It was on this St. Thomas Mount that the missionary was murdered by a spear which pierced through his posterior. His mortal remains were accepted to be covered in the area over which the present day Santhome Cathedral Basilica stands. At some point in the tenth century A.D a gathering of Nestorian Christians from Persia established the Christian town of San Thome and continued to assemble a congregation over the entombment site of St. Thomas. This structure tumbled to ruins in the vicinity of fourteenth and fifteenth century. In 1522 the Portuguese moved the missionary's remaining parts to another tomb and church which accomplished the status of Cathedral in 1606.
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| Sri Parthasarathy Temple |
The sanctuary was initially worked by the Pallavas in the eighth century, accordingly extended by Cholas and later by the Vijayanagara lords in the fifteenth century. The sanctuary has a few engravings dating from the eighth century in Tamil and Telugu probably from the time of Dantivarman, who was a Vishnu devotee. Thirumangai Alvar, the ninth century alvar additionally characteristics the working of sanctuary to the Pallava king. From the inside references of the sanctuary, it creates the impression that the sanctuary was reestablished amid 1564 CE when new altars were built. In later years, gifts of towns and greenery enclosures have advanced the temple. The sanctuary likewise has engravings about the Pallava ruler, Nandivarman of the eighth Century.
The sanctuary was widely worked amid the Chola period and a great deal of engravings going back to a similar period are found here. The external most mandapam is packed with figures of different types of Vishnu, particularly the symbols. One can likewise observe engravings of Dantivarma Pallava of the eighth century, Chola and Vijayanagara in the sanctuary. The main structural development of the sanctuary occurred amid the rule of the Pallavas (Tondaiyar Kon) as strikingly depicted by Tirumangai Azhwar. Reminiscent of this is the engraving of the Pallava King Dantivarman (796-847 A.D.), which is safeguarded in the sanctuary. The sanctuary saw a noteworthy development amid the govern of the Vijayanagar rulers like Sadasiva Raya, Sriranga Raya and Venkatapati Raya II (sixteenth century). Numerous subshrines and pillared structures (mandapas) like the Tiruvaimozhi Mandapa were included.
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| Vellankani Shrine Church |
Velankanni is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam region in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, 350 km south of Chennai (Madras) and 12 km south of Nagapattinam. Once a port that exchanged with Rome and Greece, the minor business focus bit by bit lost its significance to the bigger city of Nagapattinam. The trench worked to connection this town with Vedaranyam still deceives the west. The Vellayar, a minor branch of the Cauvery River, runs south of the town and releases into the ocean. The town was among the most exceedingly awful hit by the torrent brought about by the 2004 Indian Ocean tremor. The town is home to a huge Roman Catholic Latin Rite hallowed place called the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health. Velankanni has been picked as one of the legacy urban communities for HRIDAY - Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana plan of Government of India.
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| Thousand Lights Mosque |
Thousand Lights (Tamil: ஆயிரம் விளக்கு), a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the biggest mosques in the nation and is an adored place of love and azadari for Shia.
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| Semmozhi Poonga |
Semmozhi Poonga (genuinely signified "Set up Language Park") is a nursery in Chennai set up by the horticulture authority of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The garden was opened on 24 November 2010 by then supervisor Minister Dr.M. Karunanidhi and is the main nursery in the city. The garden is arranged in the Cathedral Road–Anna Salai crossing point, opposite the American Consulate, on the current Drive-in Woodlands Hotel. Fusing a locale of 20 areas of land (320 grounds), it was worked at a cost of ₹ 80 million. More than 500 sorts of plants are being produced in the range, despite the 80 trees that was by then in nearness in the midst of the change of the entertainment focus, some of them being more than 100 years old. The garden houses a part of the outstanding vivid vegetation and unprecedented plant species, helpful and sweet-noticing herbs. Expansive parts of the entrancing plants are remote produced using countries like China and Thailand, including an a lot of bonsai collections of ficus microcarpa and ficus ginseng.
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| Royapuram Fishing Harbour |
Royapuram angling harbor, otherwise called Chennai angling harbor or Kasimedu angling harbor, is one of the significant angling justification for getting fishes and scavangers situated at Kasimedu in the Royapuram territory of Chennai, India. The harbor is found north of the Chennai Port and is under the regulatory control of the Chennai Port Trust. The harbor is additionally a shipbuilding office, predominantly constructing angling vessels. The closest railroad station is the Royapuram Railway Station. The harbor can suit 575 angling vessels, and by 2013 the quantity of water crafts has gone up to 1,395.
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| Arignar Anna Zoological Park |
Arignar Anna Zoological Park (shortened AAZP), otherwise called the Vandalur Zoo, is a zoological garden situated in Vandalur, a suburb in the southwestern piece of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, around 31 kilometers (19 mi) from the downtown area and 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Chennai Airport. It is India's biggest zoo as far as region covering 1,300 sections of land. Its past area was set up in 1855 and was the main open zoo in India. It is partnered with the Central Zoo Authority of India. Spread over a zone of 602 hectares (1,490 sections of land), including a 92.45-hectare (228.4-section of land) save and restoration focus, the recreation center is the biggest zoological garden in India. The zoo houses 2,553 types of vegetation crosswise over 1,265 sections of land (512 ha). Starting at 2012 the recreation center houses around 1,500 wild species, including 46 imperiled species, in its 160 enclosures. As of 2010, there were around 47 types of well evolved creatures, 63 types of feathered creatures, 31 types of reptiles, 5 types of creatures of land and water, 25 types of fishes, and 10 types of creepy crawlies in the park. The recreation center, with a target to be a vault of the state's fauna, is credited with being the second untamed life haven in Tamil Nadu after Mudumalai National Park.
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| Vivekananda House |
Vivekanandar Illam (Tamil: விவேகானந்தர் இல்லம்) (or Vivekananda House, likewise called Ice House (Tamil: ஐஸ் ஹவுஸ்), Castle Kernan, and so forth.) is a structure at Chennai, India, utilized by the British to store ice brought from North America for around 30 years. Ice King Frederic Tudor assembled an ice house at Madras confronting the Bay of Bengal in 1842 as a component of his ice business. Around 1880, the business caved in and the building was sold to Biligiri Iyengar of Madras. Biligiri Iyengar was an acclaimed advocate in the Madras High Court and was genuinely well-to-do in those circumstances. He redesigned the house, renamed it Castle Kernan after his companion, Justice Kernan in the Madras High Court and utilized it as a residence. At the point when Swami Vivekananda went by Madras in 1897 after his arrival from the West, Iyengar, being a supporter of Swami Vivekananda, made him remain at the Ice House. Vivekananda remained at the Ice House between 6 February 1897 to 14 February 1897. Amid his nine-day stay, he shook India's national awareness through his searing addresses at Chennai. At the point when Vivekananda was going to withdraw, he consented to his devotees' demand to set up a perpetual focus at the Ice House.
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| Connemara Public Library |
The library's beginnings backpedal to 1860, when Captain Jesse Mitchell set up a little library as a component of the Madras Museum in Madras, capital of the Madras Presidency in the British Indian Empire. Several books had been observed to be surplus in the libraries of Haileybury College (where government employees of the Indian Civil Service were prepared in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire) and these were sent to the Madras Government, which thusly gave them over to the Madras Museum. Considered on the lines of the British Museum Library, it was a piece of the Madras Museum until 1890, when the requirement for a free open library incited the then Governor of Madras, Lord Connemara, to establish the framework on 22 March 1890.[citation needed] It opened in 1896 and was named after Lord Connemara (by then the previous Governor), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. The library was in fact basically free: A little store must be paid yet this was refundable. It turned into the state focal library in 1948, with the establishment of Madras Public Libraries Act 1948, which was the initially deliberate exertion in India to systematize, structure, generally, co-ordinate and arrange open library administrations. This is one of the Asia's biggest libraries
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| Guindy National Park |
Guindy National Park is a 2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi) Protected region of Tamil Nadu, situated in Chennai, South India, is the eighth littlest National Park of India and one of the not very many national parks arranged inside a city. The recreation center is an augmentation of the grounds encompassing Raj Bhavan, once known as the 'Guindy Lodge', the official home of the Governor of Tamil Nadu, India. It amplifies somewhere inside the senator's bequest, encasing wonderful woods, scour terrains, lakes and streams. The recreation center has a part in both ex-situ and in-situ protection and is home to 400 blackbucks, 2,000 spotted deers, 24 jackals, a wide assortment of snakes, geckos, tortoises and more than 130 types of fowls, 14 types of well evolved creatures, more than 60 types of butterflies and bugs each, an abundance of various spineless creatures—grasshoppers, ants, termites, crabs, snails, slugs, scorpions, bugs, night crawlers, millipedes, and so forth. These are free-running fauna and live with the insignificant of impedance from individuals. The main significant administration action is assurance as in whatever other in-situ preservation region. The recreation center pulls in more than 700,000 guests consistently.
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| Crocodile Bank |
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Center for Herpetology (MCBT) is a reptile zoo and herpetology inquire about station, found 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of the city of Chennai, in condition of Tamil Nadu, India. The inside is both an enrolled trust and a perceived zoo under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and is India's driving establishment for herpeto faunal preservation, research and instruction. The bank is the main crocodile reproducing focus in Asia and goes under the domain of the Central Zoo Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. It was set up with the point of sparing three Indian jeopardized types of crocodile—the bog or mugger crocodile, the saltwater crocodile, and the gharial, which at the season of establishing of the trust were all nearing eradication.
The CrocBank grounds are secured by seaside ridge timberland giving a safe house to local natural life, including huge rearing settlements of water fowls and a protected settling shoreline for olive ridley ocean turtles. The high aquifer on the sandy drift gives adequate water supply and the vicinity to the significant vacationer goal of Mahabalipuram guarantees yearly visitation. The middle is the greatest crocodile asylum in India. It covers 8.5 sections of land (3.4 ha) and had more than 450,000 guests in 2007. The inside has one of the world's biggest accumulations of crocodiles and gators and has reared 5,000 crocodiles and crocs speaking to 14 of the 23 existing species, including the three crocodile species, all thought to be jeopardized, that are local to India. As of 2011, the CrocBank has an aggregate of 2,483 creatures, including 14 types of crocodiles, 10 types of turtles, 3 types of snakes, and 1 types of reptile.
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| Dakshinachitra |
DakshinaChitra ("a photo of the south") is a living-history exhibition hall in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu, devoted to South Indian legacy and culture. It is found 25 kilometers (16 mi) toward the south of Chennai. Opened to people in general on 14 December 1996, the gallery was established and is being overseen by the Madras Craft Foundation (MCF). The MCF was built up in 1984. Deborah Thiagarajan, an Indian workmanship student of history of American beginning, administers the exhibition hall. The historical center is based on 10 sections of land (4.0 ha) of land gone up against a 33-year rent from the Government of Tamil Nadu. Created as a legacy town, DakshinaChitra has a variety of showcases delineating the life example of Indians in the conditions of South India. The shows depict the living convictions of workmanship, people performing-expressions, art and design of India, specifically of South Indian conventions.
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| Cholamandal Artist Village |
Cholamandal Artists' Village, built up in 1966, is the biggest specialists' cooperative in India. Its craftsmen are credited for the Madras Movement of Art (1950s–1980s), which got innovation to workmanship South India. Their work is broadly perceived as a portion of the best craftsmanship delivered in after war India and is demonstrated consistently in displays the nation over. A few Cholamandal specialists have likewise appeared in Europe, the United States and South America. In the town Injambakkam, 9 km from Chennai, India, it has more than 20 inhabitant painters and stone workers, who live as a group and pool their aptitudes. They run the Artists Handicrafts Association, an agreeable which deals with the town and offer of works through the lasting presentation at the perplexing, which incorporates artworks, outlines, earthenware/stone/metal models, batiks and painstaking work and so on., making the town a self-supporting substance. The people group was established by K. C. S. Paniker, the vital of the Madras School of Arts, alongside his understudies and a couple of craftsmen related with the school. It utilized the `art-meets-make' approach where craftsmen made painstaking work professionally as they sought after their specialty. By the 1970s, the town got to be distinctly independent and developed into a standout amongst the most essential meeting places for worldwide craftsmen in India. Today, it is one of only a handful few craftsman driven developments in India. Four decades on, it is one of only a handful couple of craftsmen's states on the planet to survive effectively and its establishment stays one of the "10 greatest workmanship minutes" in India.
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| Mahabalipuram |
Mamallapuram, otherwise called Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram area in the Indian condition of Tamil Nadu, around 60 km south of the city of Chennai. It is an antiquated noteworthy town and was a clamoring seaport amid the season of Periplus (first century CE) and Ptolemy (140 CE), from where old Indian brokers cruised to nations of South East Asia. By the seventh century it was a port city of the South Indian administration of the Pallavas. It has a gathering of havens cut out of shake in the seventh and eighth hundreds of years: rathas (sanctuaries as chariots), mandapas (give in asylums), mammoth outside shake reliefs, for example, the well known Descent of the Ganges, and the Shore Temple, with a large number of figures to the transcendence of Shiva. The Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram has been named an UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has a normal rise of 12 meters (39 feet). The cutting edge town of Mahabalipuram was built up by the British Raj in 1827.
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| Birla Planetarium |
B. M. Birla Planetarium is a substantial planetarium in Chennai giving a virtual voyage through the night sky and holding infinite shows on an extraordinarily punctured hemispherical aluminum internal vault. It is situated at Kotturpuram in the Periyar Science and Technology Center grounds which houses eight displays, to be specific, Physical Science, Electronics and Communication, Energy, Life Science, Innovation, Transport, International Dolls and Children and Materials Science, with more than 500 shows. Worked in 1988 in the memory of the colossal industrialist and visionary of India B. M. Birla, it is the most present day planetarium in India. There are two other Birla Planetariums in India, viz., the one in Kolkata known as M. P. Birla Planetarium and the other in Hyderabad, Tiruchirapalli and Coimbatore.
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| MGM Dizzee World |
MGM Dizzee World is an amusement stop situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated in East Coast Road. The recreation center has log flume, Ferris wheel, arachnid turn, crazy ride, the amusing mountain, dashing autos, super trooper, a water world and it additionally has extraordinary occasional shows. It is claimed by MGM Group of Companies. The recreation center likewise has unique elements, for example, snow valley encounter presented amid the mid 2000s; a simulated snow give snow-topped mountain and a snow man.
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