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Vandalur Reserve Forest

Vandalur Reserve Forest is a protected area located in the suburb of Vandalur to the southwestern part of Chennai, about 30 km from the city centre.

Vandalur Reserve Forest
Vandalur Reserve Forest · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Vandalur Reserve Forest is a protected area located in the suburb of Vandalur to the southwestern part of Chennai, about 30 km from the city centre. It is bordered by the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road in the west and Suddhanandha Bharathi Street on the northern and the eastern sides and is intersected by the Vandalur–Kelambakkam Road on the southern side. The reserve forest contains Arignar Anna Zoological Park, the largest zoological garden in the Indian subcontinent.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vandalur Reserve Forest

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 13 km · Tirupati (TIR), 102 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 261 km
  • Tirupati → Vandalur Reserve Forest
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · ₹990–1,240
  • Bengaluru → Vandalur Reserve Forest
    272 km · quickest by road, 5h · ₹2,010–2,510
  • Tiruchirappalli → Vandalur Reserve Forest
    277 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · ₹1,920–2,400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vandalur Reserve Forest

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 Vandalur Reserve Forest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    432 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    435 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    447 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    455 km
  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    477 km

If you know how people move in Vandalur Reserve Forest – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Vandalur Reserve Forest

Vandalur Reserve Forest is 24 km from Ambattur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.