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Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights 20% OFF
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
$84
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they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
Chennai's City Tour offers a captivating blend of spirituality and history at iconic landmarks like the Kapaleeshwarar Temple and Santhome Cathedral Basilica. Immerse yourself in a day filled with culture and tranquility across these remarkable sites.
- 🕉️ Begin your journey at Sri Ramakrishna Math on RK Mutt Road, enjoying a peaceful 45-minute visit to this unique monastic organization dedicated to the 19th-century saint, Sri Ramakrishna.
- 🏛️ Spend an hour at the magnificent Kapaleeshwarar Temple, famous for its stunning Dravidian architecture and vibrant gopuram, where guests can experience rituals and serenity.
- 🌊 Stroll along Marina Beach for 45 minutes, taking in the lively atmosphere filled with cricket matches, kite flying, and local snacks as you enjoy the refreshing sea breeze.
- 🙏 Visit the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple for 45 minutes, immersing yourself in its white marble structure and the spiritual ambiance created by a lamp that has been lit for over a century.
- 🏰 Explore Fort St. George, the first English fortress in India, and its colonial museum for an hour, where you can learn about the East India Company's transformation from a trading entity to a ruling power.
- 📚 Dedicate 45 minutes at Vivekananda House, the memorial of the great philosopher Swami Vivekananda, to delve into his impactful life and teachings.
- ⛪ Conclude your day at Santhome Cathedral Basilica, spending 45 minutes appreciating its neo-gothic architecture and the tranquility of one of the world's few churches built on an apostle's tomb.
- 🚗 Enjoy seamless transport by private vehicle, with hotel pickup and drop-off included for your convenience.
- 💧 Stay refreshed with complimentary bottled water provided throughout the tour.
- 🍽️ Savor a delicious lunch as part of this comprehensive experience, ensuring you are well-fed during your explorations.
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Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 6 hours
- Full time english speaking Guide
- Transport by private vehicle
- Entry/Admission
- Bottled water
- Lunch
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
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Sri Ramakrishna MathWe 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.
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Kapaleeshwarar TempleWe 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!
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Marina BeachWalk 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.
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Shirdi Sai Baba TempleThis 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
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Fort St. GeorgeFort 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!
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Vivekananda HouseWe 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.
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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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Explore Chennai City Tour with Guide, Lunch, and Local Highlights 20% OFF
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
$84
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!