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Guindy National Park

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

4.2 (0)

Overview

One of the world's few national parks inside a metro — blackbuck and chital in tropical dry evergreen behind Raj Bhavan, with a snake park at the gate.

Why visit: Blackbuck ten minutes from Chennai airport.

Things to do

›Blackbuck meadows
›Chennai Snake Park
›Children's park section

Wildlife ViewingNature Walk

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Travel Information

Best time

Nov–Feb

Entry fee

~₹20

Hours

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM (closed Tue)

Est. budget

₹100–300

Duration

2–3 hrs

Nearby attractions

Within

4.4 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Garden

4.4

Theosophical Society Adyar

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

260 riverside acres of world-faith shrines and one of the world's largest banyan trees — the global headquarters of the Theosophists since 1882.

Nov–Feb1–2 hrsExplore

5.4 km

📍 Garden

4.2

Semmozhi Poonga

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A 20-acre botanical garden in the heart of Cathedral Road — themed flora, a century-old heritage tree and bonsai courts.

Nov–Feb1–2 hrsExplore

5.6 km

📍 Monument

4.2

Valluvar Kottam

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A 39-m stone temple-chariot memorial to poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, its walls carved with all 1,330 couplets of the Thirukkural.

Nov–Feb1 hrExplore

5.6 km

🏖️ Beach

4.3

Elliot's Beach Besant Nagar

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Marina's mellow southern sister — 'Bessie' beach with the Karl Schmidt memorial, café rows and the Ashtalakshmi temple on the shore.

Nov–Feb (evenings)2–3 hrsExplore

6.1 km

📍 Temple

4.7

Kapaleeshwarar Temple

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Mylapore's 7th-century Shiva temple with a 37-m rainbow gopuram — the beating heart of old Madras, ringed by classical music and jasmine lanes.

Nov–Mar; Panguni festival (Mar–Apr)1–2 hrsExplore

6.9 km

📍 Church

4.6

San Thome Basilica

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A neo-Gothic basilica built over the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle — one of only three churches in the world raised on an apostle's grave.

Nov–Feb; Christmas1 hrExplore

8.1 km

📍 Temple

4.5

Parthasarathy Temple Triplicane

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

An 8th-century Pallava shrine to Krishna as Arjuna's charioteer — the moustached deity still bears the scars of Bhishma's arrows.

Nov–Mar; Vaikunta Ekadasi1 hrExplore

8.1 km

📍 Museum

4.5

Government Museum Egmore

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

India's second-oldest museum (1851) — the world's finest Chola bronze gallery, Amaravati marbles and the red-domed Indo-Saracenic campus.

Year-round2–3 hrsExplore

8.2 km

🏖️ Beach

4.4

Marina Beach

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

The world's second-longest urban beach — 13 km of golden sand from the fort to Besant Nagar, alive with sundal sellers, kite-flyers and statue promenades.

Nov–Feb (mornings/evenings)2–3 hrsExplore

10.9 km