Guindy National Park, Chennai

Guindy National Park is really a very huge park and is covers over 2.70 km2 of Chennai and a protected area of Tamil Nadu.Its extend deep inside the governor's estate, enclosing beautiful forests,scrubs lands and lakes.

I had spend 4 hrs and had a lot of fun.This is not only a zoo park.This whole park is surrounded by Raj Bhavan, also known as "Guindy Louge", the official residence of the Governor of Tamil Nadu.Tourists who come in Chennai ,definitely come here.The gardens inside the park is fully greenish and compatible to the animals as their habitat.

One of the edge of this park connects to IIT Chennai.IIT Chennai is a government engineering collage and ranks 4 in all over the India after IIT Kanpur,IIT Mumbai and BITS Pilani.

Reaching to this park is simple.You can take the local bus from any where in the city, make sure that you are in the right bus or train.Travelling in local train is very cheap.Wherever you go by train its maximum cost is 10 Rs, means you can cover about 60 Km straight in just 10 Rs.

Keep your belongings safe because there are many pickpockets around there. People from all over the word come here to see this beautiful park.Its a National Park ,so its quiet famous.







This park covers over 2 km2 and and now you were thinking how i cover this in only 4 hrs. Actually inside the park ,they allowed the bicycle ,bikes and many guide rides are also available there.You can heirs a bicycle inside there.Its cheap to heir a bicycle ,its costs over 15-20 Rs. per hour.If you are on a bike you are allowed to take the bike inside the zoo only if you pay 300 Rs. per hour to them.But if you are the bike, you will not be able to smell the natures beauty.

There are many things to buy there and there is a museum there ,where you can see the sample of the animals that are extinct.Once you enter in the park ,you don't need to take tension about where you are going because there are the signs on the road ,where and which animal you can see.

You are not allowed to takes photographs inside the zoo if you want to take picture inside you have to pay for that.Paying cost is almost 25 Rs. per mobile or DSLR or camera. All the things are purely mentioned.

Be aware of the animals because if get close to them they can hurt you and some of the animals are not in their cage, so make yourself safe.Don't give any food to any animals, if you do and any member of the zoo caught you can be fined for about 2000 Rs.

There are many canteens inside on the way,though you take water with you because the canteens are not that much and very rare things were available.

There is a new interpretation center about the biodiversity of the park.Entry into this protected reserve is restricted, and visitors ca go into the core area only when escorted by a forest ranger from the Forest Department.

The visiting timings at the Snake Park is from 9 a.m. to 5:50 p.m. Children's Park is from 9:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m.The zoo is open on all the days except Tuesday which is declared as holiday.

The nearest railway station is Kasturba Nagar MRTS Station and is less than 1 km away. Guindy railway station is 1 km away from the zoo.Chennai Egmore is near to Chennai Central which is main station of Chennai and is 9 and 12 km away respectively.Airport of Chennai is about 8 km far from the zoo.