Chennai city’s location near the Bay of Bengal makes it a beach paradise. Apart from being a bustling commercial hub in the south, Chennai is famous for its long and pristine coastline that offers the best views, thrilling water sports and clean seashores to stroll on. Over and above that, you can indulge in some refreshing sightseeing and tasty street food at Chennai beaches. Here’s presenting the top 6 beaches in Chennai. Best Beaches in Chennai Marina Beach One of the world’s longest urban beaches, Marina Beach is perennially flooded with tourists as well as locals. Even though swimming is not allowed at the beach, upto 30,000 visitors come to Marina Beach on a daily basis. Marina Beach is known for beach cricket. The beach is lined with statues of local and nationa...
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Where will you bid adieu the year 2016 and welcome the New year? A question often strikes in the last month of the year to all travellers. There are few places which have there typical charm for the occasion. Celebrating this transition into new year often means watching the last sunset of the passing year and then the first sunrise of the new year. But then there are always limitations with different places. You can go to Goa for a perfect year ending sunset but you can't enjoy the new dawn. And while you can welcome the new year with a perfect sunrise in Darjeeling's Tiger Hill, you will not have chance to say goodbye to the passing year with a perfect sunset. There are very few places where you can watch a perfect sunrise and a mesmerising sunset from same place. One such place i...
Read MoreIts simple spellbinding. Isn't it! More so when you get to witness such a visual spectacle at some of the most unassuming of places. This is on way back to Rameshwaram from Dhanushkodi in Tamilnadu. A cursory glance towards sea and this was what was to be seen. A huge flock of hundreds of Australian Flamingos, in all their glory. ...
Read Moreराम की कथा से रामेश्वरम का गहरा नाता उसे मिथकों में वही दर्जा दिला देता है जो देश के तमाम पौराणिक शहरों को हासिल है। इसमें कोई शक नहीं कि रामेश्वरम की ज्यादातर महत्ता रामनाथस्वामी मंदिर के लिए है, लेकिन रामेश्वरम की भौगोलिक स्थिति और प्राकृतिक खूबसूरती उसे बाकी लिहाज से भी आकर्षण का केंद्र बनाती है धनुष्कोडी से रामेश्वरम लौटते समय इस नजारे की कल्पना मैंने नहीं की थी। जब रामेश्वरम नजदीक आने लगा और मेरी निगाहें अचानक समुद्र की ओर गईं तो मैं किनारे से थोड़ी ही दूर हजारों की तादाद में फ्लेमिंगो देखकर अचंभित रह गया। दुनिया के इस हिस्से में पाए जाने वाले ग्रेटर फ्लेमिंगो भारत के कई तटीय इलाकों में दिख जाते हैं। चिलिका झील के नलबन द्वीप में मैं फ्लेमिंगो देख चुका था, लेकिन यहां वे काफी नजदीक थे और खासी बड़ी संख्या में भी। रामेश्वरम की इस खासियत के बारे में मुझे नहीं पता था। फ्लेमिंगो देखने...
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