Guindy National Park

Now
it is fragmented and the major part is a thickly forested game sanctuary where
the spotted deer and the black buck roam about and a wealth of smaller fauna
thrive. This is the country's only Wild Life Sanctuary within a city's limits.
Raj Bhavan, the Governer's mansion, occupies one end of the park, and at the
other is the beautiful forest-girt campus of Chennai's famous Indian Institute
of Technology, one of Asia's foremost technical educational institutions.
In between, and edging the road, are a famous Cancer Institute, a children's
park with its own mini zoo and mini-railway, a snake park, rich in reptiles,
and Memorials to Gandhiji, Rajaji, the first Indian Governer -General, and Kamaraj,
a great national leader. Latest addition to this array of memorials is that
of Bakthavatchalam, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
Opposite the park are the Anna University of Technology, whose nucleus was the
oldest technical school in the East; and the Central Leather Reasearch Institute.
To the east of the park as well as at the back of it sprawls the campus of the
Central Institute of Technology. Not far away is one of the country's finest
Race-courses.