Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights

Why choose this Chennai tour ?

Start your day in Chennai at the Sri Ramakrishna Math on RK Mutt Road, where you can enjoy a peaceful atmosphere for about 45 minutes. Next, visit the Kapaleeshwarar Temple to admire its stunning Dravidian architecture and vibrant gopuram, spending about an hour there. After that, take a leisurely 45-minute stroll along Marina Beach, savoring local snacks and the sea breeze.Then, head to the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple for another 45 minutes, immersing yourself in its spiritual ambiance. Follow this with a visit to Fort St. George, where you can explore the colonial museum for an hour. Afterward, make your way to Vivekananda House, dedicating 45 minutes to learn about the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.Conclude your day at the Santhome Cathedral Basilica, a beautiful neo-gothic church, spending 45 minutes appreciating its architecture and tranquility.Offering a rich blend of spirituality, culture, and history, making for a memorable day in Chennai.

Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights

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What makes Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights a unique experience ?

We visit a unique monastic organization called Ramakrishna Math, dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna the 19th century saint. Guests will get to see the universal temple, the shrine, a beautiful Mantapam, a multimedia museum and an enchanting library.

We head towards Mylapore an ancient residential neighborhood of Chennai whose history goes back to Roman times when it used to trade pepper and fine cloth with Rome for Gold! We visit the magnificent Kapaleeshwar temple. Built in the 7th century this temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. Built in Dravidian style architecture it has a towering “Gopuram”. Guests can expect a mesmerizing experience of rituals and serenity inside the temple. Our cultural evangelist will demystify the happenings in the temple!

Walk on the Marina Beach, along the 3km-long main stretch of Marina Beach and you’ll pass cricket matches, flying kites, fortune-tellers, fish markets, corn-roasters and families enjoying the sea breeze.

This is a temple dedicated to Sai Baba, the great mystic who united Hindus and Muslims and preached about universal love and brotherhood. The temple is built with white marble and has a lamp which has been lit for more than a 100 years

Fort St George is the first English Fortress built in 1644 by the East India Company. We will visit St Mary’s Church, the oldest Anglican Church of India. Our cultural evangelist will take you to a quaint museum rich with relics of the colonial times and retell the story of how the East Indian company morphed from a trading company into the ruler of India!

We will explore the memorial for Swami Vivekananda who was a great philosopher. His speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an orator by divine right and as a messenger of Indian wisdom to the western world. On Mondays it is closed and we will visit the Egmore Museum instead.

We visit the famous San Thome Basilica, the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore. We can see relics of St Thomas here. It is one of only three churches in the world that has been constructed on the tomb of an apostle. The other two are St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, and Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain.

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Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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