Adyar eco park online booking

Visitors are allowed in the park that is considered an ecological landmark, in four sessions- for walking from 6:30 am to 8 am and 4:30 pm to 6pm and a guided tour for the general public from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and for educational tours from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. The guided tour has also been increased from three days a week to Monday-Saturday every week (except public holidays) for a charge of `20 per head. The ‘environmental educational programme’ for schools and colleges are charged at `10 per person. Walking is allowed on all days except public holidays. One time walking permits are for Rs 20 per head while monthly passes for Rs 500 a person, three-month passes for `1,500, six-month passes for Rs 2,500 and yearly permits for Rs 5,000 are available. The walking track within the park is 3.2 km long. The Tamil Nadu Government, through the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust, renovated 58 acres of the Adyar Estuary area to create the Tholkappiya poonga (Adyar Eco Park) in 2011. However, entry into the eco park was restricted since the park was considered an ecologically sensitive area. The park was opened up to the public for the first time in May this year, by CM MK Stalin. Apart from increasing the visitors allowed on a daily basis, online booking has also been opened now; visitors can book at https://www.chennairivers.gov.in/ CHENNAI: The cap on the number of visitors allowed into Tholkappia Poonga or the Adyar Eco Park has been increased from 60 to 100 for each session. Vi...

Photo Credit : Tholkappia Poonga or Adyar Poonga (also known as Adyar Eco Park) is an ecological park set up by the Government of Tamil Nadu in the Adyar estuary area of Chennai, India. The Chennai city is abound with lakes and rivers, providing a habitat for wide variety of flora and fauna. The Chennai City is drained by 3 east flowing rivers namely Kosasthalayar, Cooum and Adyar between its north and south boundaries. Adyar Poonga Eco Park is an eco-restoration project to restore the degraded Adyar Creek and therefore the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust recommended for minimum human interface. The Adyar Creek and the Estuary from the eastern part of ThiruViKa Bridge covers an area of about 358 acres. This unique eco system has supported a wide variety of flora and fauna which gradually degraded over the years. The Adyar river originates from Malaipattu tank near Manimangalam village in Sriperumbudur Taluk at about 15 km west of Tambaram and gains momentum as a stream from Chembarambakkam lake. Adyar Poonga, is a section of an inland waterway coming from the Adyar Estuary, curving its way along the Quibble Island up to the Greenways Road. A survey of historic plans shows that the area has functioned as a storm water outflow for the watershed around the Creek, mainly for Mandaveli. Storm water coming from the surrounding areas through storm water drains would fill the Creek and functioned as retention and infiltration pond and excess overflows to the estuary. Similarly th...

A man made ecological system which spans around about 58 acres. The entire tour is about 1.5 Kms around the lake and you would be travelling along with a group of people and a guide. Neatly maintained and very quite in the midst of the city. Do not expect much, as it is just a peaceful walk around a lake and with so many stone sculptures, rest huts etc. They just allow only a max of 40 ppl per session, so do call and book your tickets in advance. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are open to public as of now. While we have two sessions on Saturday, its restricted to only one only afternoon session on Tuesday and Thursday. A paradise on greenways road, this Eco-park is a jewel in the heart of the city. But like any jewel, this one is protected from public and is only allowed for visits with permission.The park offers a sanctuary for a lot of our aviary relatives (birds) and we can witness so many species nesting and finding it a safe sanctum.Children are allowed here on school visits and there are very limited visits available to the public.It would be fantastic if the government created a scheme wherein a membership was created and allowed only members to benefit from the place, so that there could be a limited population only visiting so that the birds would not be disturbed! Its a great integrated ecosystem. Its was built up a mix with wetlands and forest systems thats why many flora and fauna are seen naturally. It was amazing if you are interested to love nature please go...

We booked online only to find that the park was closed for a government holiday today (we'd wanted to go last weekend but the website had said that was a holiday!), however, the staff were kind enough to give us a very quick walk around. It was our second visit and very hot, so this was fine with us and we were grateful that they'd agreed to let us in. This park is an absolutely beautiful, hidden gem in the heart of RA Puram. It is amazingly peaceful considering the heavy traffic on the surrounding roads and hard to believe that you are still in the city. I would recommend a visit to anyone - it's incredibly cheap to enter although you must book in advance online as visitor numbers are restricted. The Adyar Eco Park or Tholkappia Poonga as it is also called, is a lovely peaceful place for nature lovers to stroll around. The walking paths are broad, flanked by greenery on both sides, and with plenty of places to sit and feel at one with nature. The waters alongside have a number of water birds which are a delight to the eye, painted storks, grey herons, egrets, grebes, while butterflies of different hues flit around constantly. We saw Tawny costers, plain tigers, grass blues and common crows moving around, alighting on trees and plants, and then moving off again within a minute or so. To the untrained eye, it is a difficult task to identify the species of butterfly, more so when it is constantly in motion. There are bridges constructed across the water at several places whe...