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Perungudi, Tambaram — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Perungudi is a Chennai neighbourhood between the Old Mahabalipuram Road and Perungudi lake, about ten kilometres south of Adyar in Tamil Nadu.
About Perungudi
Where to stay in Perungudi
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Rooms here follow the IT estate. Perungudi sits in the middle of the Information Technology estate strung along the Old Mahabalipuram IT Expressway, and the lodging that exists answers to that trade rather than to sightseeing, which shapes both what is on offer and who fills it. The lake limits the spread.
Perungudi lake closes off one flank of the neighbourhood, so the built frontage runs along the Old Mahabalipuram Road, with Taramani on one side and Thoraipakkam on the other. Adyar is the alternative base, about ten kilometres north, for anyone wanting a bed clear of the estate.
About Perungudi
What are the main landmarks in Perungudi?
No temple or museum carries Perungudi's name. The neighbourhood is identified instead by Perungudi lake on one flank and by the Information Technology estate that lines the Old Mahabalipuram IT Expressway, an unlikely pairing of open water and office blocks. Taramani adjoins it.
Kottivakkam and Palavakkam run parallel along the East Coast Road, Thoraipakkam sits on the far side, and what fills the ground between them is Chennai's newer working edge rather than its older monuments.
What is the history of Perungudi?
Little about Perungudi was written down before the IT estate arrived. Perungudi carries no founding year, and what is set down about the neighbourhood belongs to the era of the Old Mahabalipuram IT Expressway, when it found itself in the middle of an Information Technology estate. Adyar lies ten kilometres north.
Chennai's map puts Perungudi among Taramani, Thoraipakkam, Kottivakkam and Palavakkam in the same southern belt of Tamil Nadu, India, with the lake on one flank and the expressway threading through.
Where is Perungudi?
Perungudi occupies tropical ground on the southern side of Chennai, bordered by the Old Mahabalipuram Road and Perungudi lake, ten kilometres from Adyar.
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Updated August 2026