Chennai Tourism
Chennai, the present gateway to the South of India, is, however, only
about 350 years old. Chennai is ever growing, changing and pulsating with new
activities. The city of today, one of the great metropolitan cities of the world,
and the fourth largest city in India, grew from the Fort that Francis Day and
his superior Andrew Cogan of East India Company built on a narrow spit of no-man's
land that Day's dubash Beri Thimanna negotiated with the local governor of the
Vijayangar Empire.
Chennai Travel Guide: Chennai
was the first British major settlement in India and it was here that many who
went on to build the Empire first learnt their trade. As a consequence, the
city is replete with much that is of significance in British Indian history.
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Places of Interest in Chennai:
Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple, Guindy National Park, Fort ST. George, Government
Museum Complex, Valluvar Kottam, MGR Film City, Birla Planetarium, The Marina.
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Excursions in Chennai: Kishkintha,
Vandalur, MGM Dizzy World, Little Folks, V.G.P. Golden Beach Resort, Dakshina
Chitra, Crocodile Bank, Muttukadu Boat House.
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Shopping in Chennai: Chennai is renowned
for its handlooms, both the exquisite Kancheepuram silk sarees and the cottons
used designed sarees, shirts and domestic furnishers. The Co-optex showrooms
offer a wide variety of both types of handlooms, whereas the Khadi centres are
better known for their cotton varieties.
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