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Friends,

Let us use this thread to collect photos of Chennai.
Photos taken by you during your visit to Chennai can be added. If you find other pictures from tourism websites, you may add them to here. Please only provide the link as much as possible.

Please add few comments that could help some one new to Chennai.

Recently I travelled between Chennai and Kanchi.

I took pictures of the buildings along NH4 ( Electronic Manufacturing corrider ).

http://picasaweb.google.com/rrk123/NH4TelecomCorrider?authkey=HMbBvpyLnmI

Impressive list of MNCs..:D

I love temple architecture especially the dravidian style tall/towering and colorful gopurams.

I recently took this picture of the gopuram at the Ashtalaksmi temple, located on the beach side at Besant Nagar in Chennai.

The structures, idols, temple appeared to be fairly newer compared to those that are centuries old.

The reason I'm posting this is to comment on a couple of things I found interesting.

The temple and gopura is tiered. The 8 Lakshmi idols are placed in a gopura that is 3 (?) storyed. This is the only "mutli-tiered" temple that I've visited.

What seems irregular about this structure at second glance is that as one climbs to view the idol on the top tier, he or she would be "climbing" or "walking" on top of the idol in the tier below.

I haven't confirmed if the idols and stairs are placed such that one would never be treading on the idol below, however, I'm willing to bet that the temple architects would have given this due consideration.

Ashtalaksmi kovil gopuram - http://www.flickr.com/photos/12687651@N06/1376362710/

I am regular visitor to Flickr and i found this guys Pics amazing.
Even though there are many pics of chennai , in my opinion the one of mysore and Mumbai stands out.enjoy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balu/sets/

I may be getting a little carried over by this thread, but this thread made me to look into his snaps one more time. He has removed some of the best snaps because some of his family members may have been present in the pics.here is one good pic.Promise won't bother you all again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balu/8115999/

A whole feast of chennai pictures of almost every locality.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=514306

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=279888

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=319217

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=323812