A day before Cyclone Nisha hit Chennai, I returned from a great trip to Pondicherry (now called Puducherry). It is 3 hours away by road from Chennai, and there are two picturesque routes: East Coast Road (along the Bay of Bengal) and the slightly longer National Highway 45. The drives are both beautiful, and the weather in November (southern monsoons) made it even better.
Pondicherry is a very small town; one could walk from one end to the other in less than an hour. We stayed in Ville Blanche (White Town), the French part of the town. It is very pretty; the architecture has a Colonial feel to it. Apparently even new structures in that area are forced to match those architectural looks.
Its a nice little town, with good food and cheap liquor. Those are the photographs from my Picasa album (limited somewhat because I'm not keen to shoot in rains). Feel free to leave comments.
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