About Chennai

Chennai, also known as Madras, is the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is India’s fourth-largest city.

Chennai’s economy is based on automobile, technology, hardware manufacturing, and healthcare industries and is India’s second largest exporter of software, information technology (IT) and information-technology-enabled services (ITES).

Chennai also serves as one of the major contributor to the state’s GDP and accounts for 60 per cent of the country’s automotive exports as a major chunk of India’s automobile manufacturing industry is based in and around the city.

The Tamil film industry also known as Kollywood, is based in Chennai.

Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA) is the third busiest in India . All international flights arrive at Anna Terminal, while the domestic flights arrive at Kamraj Terminal. The two terminals are on the same road and are 150 meters away from each other.

One can easily get private taxi’s and pre-paid taxi to get to the city, each terminal has several booth for several taxi companies when you exit the airport.

Chennai has two main long-distance train stations, Chennai Central (code MAS) and Egmore (code MS), with daily trains from/to Bangalore, Bombay, Coimbatore, Delhi and virtually all other major Indian cities.

Railway booking to Chennai can be easily done from any railway station in India or from the IRCTC website.

Site seeing in Chennai:

The Birla Planetarium - The most modern planetarium in the country.

Fort St. George, built in 1653 by the English Company of the Eastern Indies (CAIO), houses the Secretariat and the legislative Parliament of Tamil Nadu .

Guindy National Park & Guindy Snake Park.

Marina beach and Elliots Beach (Besant Nagar).

and a lot more.. Lastly;

MA Chidambaram Stadium - One of the premier cricket stadiums of India.