Perungudi
Perungudi is a neighbourhood of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Perungudi is a neighbourhood of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Adyar. It is bordered on two sides by the Old Mahabalipuram Road and the Perungudi lake. It is situated on the Old Mahabalipuram IT Expressway right in middle of an Information Technology (IT) Estate. It is between Taramani and Thoraipakkam and parallel to Kottivakkam and Palavakkam in the East Coast Road.
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Worth seeing in and around Perungudi
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Buckingham Canal
The Buckingham Canal is a 796 kilometres -long brackish-water navigation canal system running roughly parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India, from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu. It links a chain of coastal backwaters and waterways and passes through Chennai.
2.3 km · canal that runs in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu in India · Wikipedia - 02Marundeeswarar Temple
Marundeeswarar Temple is a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Shiva, located in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai adjacent to the beach of Bay of Bengal. It is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams where two of the most revered Nayanars, Appar and Tirugnana Sambandar, have glorified the temple with their verses during the 7th century CE. The temple has been widely expanded by Chola kings during the 11th century CE. The temple has two seven-tiered gateway towers, a huge tank, with the overall temple area covering 1 acre.
2.8 km · Hindu temple in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 03Westin Chennai
The Westin Chennai Velachery is a 10-storied five-star hotel in Chennai, India. Located on Velachery Main Road in Velachery, a southern suburb of Chennai, it is the sixth Westin hotel in India.
4 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 04TIDEL Park, Chennai
TIDEL Park is an information technology park in Chennai, India. It is located on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in the southern locality of Taramani.
2.7 km · Tech Park in Chennai, India · Wikipedia - 05Central Polytechnic Chennai
Central Polytechnic Chennai is a polytechnic in Tamil Nadu.
3.9 km · Government polytechnic college in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 06Chemplast Cricket Ground
The Chemplast Cricket Ground or Indian Institute of Technology Chemplast Ground is a cricket ground within the IIT Madras campus, in Velachery, Chennai. The ground is an important cricket venue in Chennai, and used for practice sessions by the Indian national cricket team.
3.3 km · Cricket ground on the campus of IIT Madras · Wikipedia - 07Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University
Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University is a public state university established in 1997 at Chennai, India by the Government of Tamil Nadu under The Tamil Nadu Dr.
1.4 km · state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 08International Tech Park, Chennai
The International Tech Park Chennai, Taramani or ITPC is an hi-tech park in Taramani, Chennai. Located in Chennai's IT Corridor, it spans 15 acres, offering approximately 2 million sq ft of office space.
2.3 km · technology park in south India · Wikipedia - 09Roja Muthiah Research Library
The Roja Muthiah Research Library, in Chennai, India, was founded in 1994, and opened to researchers in 1996; it provides research materials for Tamil studies in a variety of fields of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Library is based on the collection of Roja Muthiah, who accumulated one of the world's finest private libraries of Tamil publications.
3.6 km · research library in Chennai, India · Wikipedia - 10National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chennai
National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chennai is a deemed to be university under distinct category under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. NITTTR Chennai is located in Tharamani in Chennai.
2.5 km · Institute in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Perungudi
- Airports
- Chennai (MAA), 9 km · Tirupati (TIR), 106 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 276 km
- Stations
- Indira Nagar railway station, 3.5 km · Velachery railway station, 2.9 km · Thiruvanmiyur railway station, 2.7 km · Perungudi railway station, 1.9 km · Taramani railway station, 1.6 km
- Tirupati → Perungudi116 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · ₹1,010–1,260
- Bengaluru → Perungudi287 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₹2,110–2,630
- Tiruchirappalli → Perungudi292 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · ₹2,060–2,580
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Perungudi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Perungudi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
- Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
- Get aroundThe fares of Chennai auto-rickshaws have been an enormous political topic for many years and have contributed to the perception that the city's auto-rickshaw drivers never use meters and continually fleece passengers.
- Get aroundHowever, despite the reputation, trips by auto rickshaw actually are quick, but rarely based on the metered price.
- Get aroundAuto rickshaw meters are being outfitted with GPS and electronic digital receipt printers.
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Next door to Perungudi
Perungudi is 14 km from Chennai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Neelankaraineighborhood in India2.3 km
- PalavakkamNeighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India1.8 km
- Kottivakkamneighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India1.4 km
- OggiyamduraipakkamVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
- Velacheryneighborhood in Chennai metro area3 km
- ThiruvanmiyurNeighbourhood in Chennai2.8 km