Madhavaram Horticulture Park Lake (Water bodies of Chennai - 64)

Spread over a small area of about 2 acres, this small but beautiful lake remains a lesser-known destination of Chennai. However, the old residents of Madhavaram might remember the areas around the lake very well. It was full of pine trees, and it used to be a hangout zone. Now, the site has been developed as a horticulture park. In addition, the lake is used for recreational activities such as boating. Especially, people love to travel in round-shaped boats called coracles. Also, it is an ideal place for bird-watching. 

There is no particular name for this lake. Due to its size, it is mistaken to be a pond. But it's technically a lake. 

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 poorly shrunk. 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 we have today might vanish soon. I thought of visiting the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.