Places to Visit in Gummidipoondi

Gummidipoondi — at a glance

The places themselves, around Gummidipoondi

The best tourist places to visit in Gummidipoondi — temples, viewpoints, lakes, heritage and nature, each with a full guide, how to reach it and what to see nearby.

PlacePulicat Lake

India's second-largest brackish lagoon, its Tamil Nadu shore lined with fishing camps and palmyra palms behind the Sriharikota barrier island.

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PlacePulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary

Winter wetland thick with greater flamingos, pelicans and painted storks, one of the Coromandel coast's most important bird habitats.

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PlaceGummidipoondi

The district's northernmost town and a large industrial estate on the Andhra Pradesh border, a key rail and highway node near the Pulicat lagoon.

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Gummidipoondi guides, stories & itineraries

We have not published a story about Gummidipoondi itself yet. These cover Thiruvallur, the district it sits in, and travel in Tamil Nadu generally.

Nearby in Thiruvallur

We have not published a story about a place in Gummidipoondi itself yet. These are the nearest things we have written.

Guide

Thiruvallur District: Temples, Flamingos and Dutch Ruins North-West of Chennai

The satellite district beyond Chennai’s edge — a Divya Desam, a Murugan hill shrine, India’s second-largest brackish lagoon and a forgotten Dutch capital.

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The Bird Sanctuaries of Tamil Nadu: A Birding Guide to the Great Wetlands

From the 18th-century heronry at Vedanthangal to the flamingo-pink lagoons of Point Calimere and Pulicat — where to watch birds in Tamil Nadu, and when.

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Story

Thiruttani: The Hill Where Murugan’s Anger Cooled

Fifth of Murugan’s six war-camps, reached by 365 steps — one for each day of the year — Thiruttani is where legend says the warrior god cooled his anger and married Valli.

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