Tourist attraction
Boat House Muttukadu
Backwater boating centre on a historic coastal canal, with speedboats, rowboats and pedal boats.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Muttukadu Boat House near Chennai starts at an old canal lock by the jetty and opens onto the waterway it belongs to, the Buckingham Canal. It goes back to the famine of eighteen seventy-six, to a duke governing Madras and a viceroy in Calcutta who saw that crisis very differently. Along the way you'll meet the sailboats that once carried rice and chillies down this coast, and the passengers who slept on deck. Best heard on the floating jetty, facing the water.
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