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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. More

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. More

Excursions in Chennai: Kishkintha, Vandalur, MGM Dizzy World, Little Folks, V.G.P. Golden Beach Resort, Dakshina Chitra, Crocodile Bank, Muttukadu Boat House. More

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. More