Showing posts with label Spencer Plaza. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Travel In India - Chennai


 Welcome To Chennai City


I am sharing my experience with one of our countries beautiful metro city Chennai.
It was used to be called MADRAS PROVINCE before independence.
It was one of the biggest provinces. This City has its own culture. It has its own night life.

I reached Chennai Railways station called Chennai Central by train in the evening at around 4 P.M. (IST).
The weather was warm as expected. I came out of the chennai central railway station. It was crowded in the same way it used to be in Mumbai Central or CST. The auto rikshaw guys started flocking towards me. I was new to this city and was not aware that , using meters in autos is against the law in this city, as mentioned by one of the auto rikshaw guy.

I had my room booked in one of the hotels on Peter's Road, by one of my colleague. I told the address and as the auto guy was well aware that i am new to this city, they were not ready to negotiate on the fare. I took the auto which charged me least among other guys and was on my way to peters road.

 Things looked new but the crowd , traffic , pollution and roads looked familiar, as it was in mumbai. There was an interesting thing i noticed on my way. I saw that construction for metro rails was going on.

 I saw poster of this guy all over the city. I was not aware of this person till i enquired with the auto guy. He is a political leader and belongs to DMK.

Before knowing this i thought he is some kind of hero as his poses showed him as an army general. I asked the driver why there are so many posters of this person. He said in Hindi
"Yahan Sab Aisa Hi Hai", its the same line which we use, when we dont know .

Then i realized that my country follows UNITY IN DIVERSITY in politics too. Let us cut short this discussion, as its of least importance in our blog.

I reached my hotel and came to know that the well known spencer's plaza is very near i.e. on mount road.
So i unpacked my luggage and walked my way to spencer's plaza to enjoy the evening.

I read somewhere that it looked like this in olden days. So i was curious to visit it and see. It was renovated the same old look was retained.

On a week day the kids gaming section was crowded and i made my way to that section. I played games over there and saw lot of kids playing.

Wow, now a days kids spend there evenings here, and not on streets playing games like, kanccha, gillidunda, hide and seek,cricket etc.

My day was ending, so i went to saravana bhavan had one costliest DOSA and went to my room to take rest. It is one of the very famous restaurants in chennai metro city.


Well friends, its the end of day one in chennai metro city.

I will share with you some of other unique experiences in this city as well as its beaches.

Hope it will be useful for you in case you plan for your visit in chennai metro city.


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