Best Things to do in Chennai
A magnificent metropolitan city of India, Chennai is a melting point of lifestyles and cultures. Every facet of Chennai is worth exploring and in the heart of the city lies the Design Hotel Chennai by jüSTa. The hotel is located at a comfortable driving distance from the Chennai International Airport (9 Kilometers), Chennai Central Railway Station (13.5 Kilometers) at the Phoenix Marketcity Mall, Velachery.
1. Government Museum
Chennai Government Museum, which is also called Madras Museum, is in the heart of town, in Chennai’s busy Egmore area. This is an old museum founded in 1851 and boasts of exhibits from a wide variety of subject matters from archaeology and sculpture to anthropology, zoology, botany and geology. The Government Museum is housed in an expansive tree-studded campus and has six buildings and 46 galleries.
2. Fort ST George
Built by the British East India Company in 1640, Fort St. George was the first fortress in India founded in the year 1644. It houses the famous St Mary’s Church (an ancient Anglican Church), a museum (contains antics and artifacts from British Rule) and Wellesley House (paintings of the Fort Governer).
3. Elliot's Beach
Elliot's Beach popularly known as "Besant Nagar Beach" or "Bessie" is located in Besant Nagar, Chennai, India. It forms the end-point of the Marina Beach shore and is named after Edward Elliot, onetime chief magistrate and superintendent of police, Madras. It has the Velankanni Church and the Ashtalakshmi Kovil nearby. In the colonial era, it was a fairly exclusive place limited to white people.
4. Arignar Anna Zoological Park
Arignar Anna Zoological Park is one of the modern and scientifically managed zoos spread over an area of 602 hectares. This zoo has attained excellence as a dynamic nature conservation centre by promoting breeding programme of rare and endangered species of the Western and Eastern Ghats.
5. Marina Beach
Marina beach in Chennai along the Bay of Bengal is India's longest and world's second longest beach. This predominantly sandy of nearly 12 kilometers extends from Beasant Nagar in the south to Fort St. George in the north. Chennai Marina beach was renovated by Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff in 1880s.
