Chennai Vibes
Have you ever been to Chennai ? If you don't , you have to go as, Chennai , one of the most beautiful and busiest city of Tamil Nadu, also known as Madras. The capital of the state, located on the Coromandal cost of Bay of Bengal. Chennai is one of the largest cultural , economical , and education center of south India. The city attracts million of tourists each year to its Centre, so that it is called as" the health capital of India". Chennai is known for its so many tourists places and it is the 4th largest city of the country in visitors flock . Any one whose visited Chennai will surely visit the place again and again as it's is ever corner is filled with beauty. Here are some of the places which attracts the tourists.
Kalpakeshwara Temple located Mylapore, Chennai, known for its, history, architect style and spiritual beliefs .The temple was built by pallavas in 7th century and reconstructed in 16th century. Kalpakeshwara temple was built in Dravidian and Vijayanagari style complete with towering gopurams.Although it has numerous shrines ,of those Kalpakeshwahra (shiva)and Karpagambal (parvathy )was more prominent. The temple had a large scared pond in the western side .There were many halls and mandapas .The unique architectural style, gopurams and temple head makes the temple more attractive places for the visitors to visit in. In the temple we can see so many cows, bulls, goats, hens are grown there as pets in the temple premises. The people came the temple saw these animals as the gods representatives, they give them foods and take blessings from them. The temple is well known for its Brahmotsavam, take place during the Tamil month Panguni.
The Elliot's beach also known as Besant Nagar Beach, known for its serenity and calm atmosphere. The Beach provides a calm and quiet atmosphere to the visitors. The sand in this beach look like clean brown sands. The beach creates a pollution free environment to the tourists, every corner in the beach dustbins are placed. There we can see the memorial of Dutch sailor, Karl Schmidt, this memorial has also made the beach more attractive to the tourists. The beach forms the end -point of marina Beach. Evenings time made the beach looks more attractive as the beach is filled with children's carnival, food stores and ventures.
Chennai is not only famous for the beach sights, it is also famous for its and amazing spot in the case of wild life. Guindy National Park had large collections of flora and fauna and reptile creatures. The park covers an area of 2.70 square kilometers, provides a great habitat to the species . In addition to it has a children's park, which attracts a lot of children's to the park. Guindy national park also known for snake and crocodile park. Main attraction of the park is 20 million year old specimen of Tyrannosaurs. The wildlife protection includes chital, Sloth bear ,Spotted deer ,dhole, Small Liven Civet ,Pangolin . Many other mammals like Hyena Common Mongoose, Three striped palm Squirrels, Jackals, Monkey can be found here. The park also provides habitat to several herbs and crawlers and around 60 species of butterflies. The park also gained recognition as a medium zoo and reptile park. We can see various snakes like snakes, cobra ,pythons, vipers , reptiles like crocodiles, alligator, chameleon. The other interesting part is that ,the park contain birds park and children's park. Outside the park there is the availability of drinking water, caterings and venders.
Chennai Light House, formerly known as Madras Lighthouse, facing Bay of Bengal .It is a famous landmark on Marina Beach in Chennai. The light house has a special peculiar feature the it has upstairs as well as elevator. The lighthouse completely works under solar power thus it is called as greenlight house. At the top of the lighthouse gives a good scenery of sea and city, thus it makes an attractive place. The light house comprises of four towers. In the basement of the tower we can find an exhibition which explains the functioning and parts of the lighthouse.
Vivekananda Illam , earlier known as Ice House or Castle Kernan ,the building was constructed by Fedric Tudor. Swami Vivekananda stayed in this building when he visits Chennai, later it was named after him. The Illam currently run by Ramakrishna Math , it is a source of inspiration to thousand of people who visit this historical place. Vivekananda house contains the exhibitions with Vivekananda quotes , paintings, his teachings and mission. There is wall paintings of small Narendra to Vivekananda.
St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica also known as San Thome church, in the city of Chennai. It was built in 6th century by Portuguese , over the tomb of Saint Thomas ,one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Later the church was rebuild by British in Neo-gothic style. It was believed that the mortal remains of the saint was buried in the location where the church now stand's. The San Thome Basilica is a pilgrimage center in India. The church also had an attached museum, where we can find the model of the church, the bones of St Thoms still preserved there, the old coins and utensils used in olden times, there church crosses etc.
M.G.R Memorial is a memorial complex on the Marina beach in Chennai. It is the burial place of M.G. Ramachandran the former Chief minister ,actor cum politician , near the memorial has a burning lamb which always remember about the great. his protag J .Jayalalitha memorial provides a honor to their beloved Amma and Karuna Nidhi whose Samadhi were also lies beside. It was situated near Anna Complex.
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