Perumbakkam locality in Chennai is a marshland with so many water bodies in the past. However, there are only a few that still exist. There is one such beautiful pond that remains hidden. It spreads over 0.6 acres, and it belongs to Pazhandi Amman and Perumbakkeswarar Temples.
This is definitely one of the most beautiful water bodies in the locality. There was a plan to construct a shrine by destroying a part of the pond. Fortunately, the plan was dropped, and thus the pond has been protected.
Happy travelling.
Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. Most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water had been shrunk badly. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby, and lake view roads without any lake in the vicinity. There is a high possibility that even the few water bodies that we have today might vanish in the near future. I thought of visiting the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.
