Muttukadu and Dakshina Chitra

Muttukadu is being a famous backwater destination of Chennai calls thousands of tourists visiting Chennai every year. Serving as an excellent center for water sports and fun activities, Muttukadu is always flooded with water enthusiasts. People can be found here enjoying Boating, windsurfing, kayaking, canoeing, etc. There are even training schools here for water sports lovers.

The month of February sees the maximum tourists from the worldwide as there is an annual windsurfing regatta held here then. Apart from spending a day in all fun-filled activities, you can even spend a blissful night in the boathouses here. Merely 2kms from Muttukadu is Dakshina Chitra. It holds the prestige of being one of the living-history museums in India. It was established in 1996 by the efforts of Madras Craft Foundation for promoting the culture and the artworks of the southern Indian states and to reach to a maximum number of people of the country and abroad. The museum excellently portrays the architecture, crafts, performing arts, and lifestyles of the Southern states of India.

This museum is a gate to heaven for the ones who love to explore the different culture or the ones keen to know about the south Indian culture and heritage. The museum depicts every form of artworks in a very realistic and excellent way. You must include this place in your itinerary.