{"id":382,"date":"2014-11-25T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/?p=382"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T09:26:58","slug":"we-recommend-that-you-visit-chennai-a-big-sprawling-town-near-mahabalipuram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/we-recommend-that-you-visit-chennai-a-big-sprawling-town-near-mahabalipuram\/","title":{"rendered":"We recommend that you visit Chennai, a big sprawling town, near Mah\u0101balipuram."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chennai<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>Like many other large towns in India, Madras which has been renamed \u201cChennai\u201d in 1996 (7 millions inhabitants), may seem at first disconcerting and hostile for the traveller who has just arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Road traffic as in any other Indian town is dense, noisy and colourful. Notwithstanding the town has some charm. The cultural life is vibrant and the beaches are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gateway to South India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact to appreciate Chennai one has to accept to spend some time, enough to discover the wealth of its cultural heritage. Though the absence of major monuments means few tourists visit the capital of Dravidian art.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":2,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yoga-ashtanga.net\\\/en\\\/we-recommend-that-you-visit-chennai-a-big-sprawling-town-near-mahabalipuram\\\/\",\"likes_blog_id\":false}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-382 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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data-large-file=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Madame-Blavatsky_a.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/we-recommend-that-you-visit-chennai-a-big-sprawling-town-near-mahabalipuram\/royal-enfield_c\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Royal-Enfield_c-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"386\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Royal-Enfield_c.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3872,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON 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It attracts a huge crowd of Indians in festive mood. On offer are: shooting, riding horse, foodstalls, drinks (sugar cane juice), merry-go-round for children and adults, shops with flashy and twinkling gadgets. One can also have his or her photograph taken with a cardboard cut effigy of a Bollywood star. Expect a long queue, etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The Governement Art Gallery, a must see<\/li>\n<li>The temple of Kapaleeswarar<\/li>\n<li>the Theosophical Society, south of Chennai<\/li>\n<li>the Kollywood Studios which compete with Bollywood in Mombai. The first silent film in Tamil was shot in 1916. The AVM and Prasad Studios are opened to the public.<\/li>\n<li>The factory of the legendray Royal Enfield motorbikes<\/li>\n<li>San Thome Cathedral (St. Thomas), Mount St. Thomas (for its view of the city of Chennai and Little Mount.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8640\" src=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/little-mount.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/little-mount.jpg 400w, https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/little-mount-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><br \/>\nLittle Mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai, Like many other large towns in India, Madras which has been renamed \u201cChennai\u201d in 1996 (7 millions inhabitants), may seem at first disconcerting and hostile for the traveller who has just arrived. Road traffic as in any other Indian town is dense, noisy and colourful. Notwithstanding the town has some charm. The cultural life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187,1449,184,189,186,1454,1448,1442,185,190,188,1460],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-areas-interest-india","tag-bollywood","tag-chennai","tag-desikachar","tag-kapaleeswarar-temple","tag-kollywood","tag-krishnamacharya","tag-madras","tag-mahabalipuram","tag-marina-beach","tag-national-art-gallery","tag-theosophical-society","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoga-ashtanga.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}