It's all about Pondy!

Jul 17, 2016

Pondicherry, also known by the name of Pudducherry is one beautiful place in South India. They say it mini Goa too. What is there so special? This blog post tries to cover my experiences and information about this small state of India.

Auro Beach

This beach is stupid - in fact worse. But, there are no other beaches in Pondy as cheap as this beach, so either you spend your entire budget on some good beach, or you stay here, that is around five times cheaper than other beach. This beach lies in Tamilnadu, and not the union territory. There are cottages around the beach, where you can stay or even hotels if you want to stay in room. There is darkness during the night, so you have to depend on your mobile light. So, if you love to drink in the beach, this beach is suitable for anyone.

Auro Beach

Auro Villa

From Auro beach, it is around 7 kms away, and if you rent any vehicle you go on your own. This auto driver will charge you Rs 300 for two way movement, and in this very amount you can rent scooter for 24 hours. The road is silent, without much vehicle movement either. There's big golden ball, they said it was for meditation, in between the forest. The environment is good, and you can spend some peaceful time there.

Auro Villa

French Colony/Rocky Beach

This beach is not that expensive either. But, still expensive than Auro beach. It is family beach, and cleaner one. The evening time of this beach is so wonderful. Good thing about this beach is - people are not allowed to drink here, making it safer and peaceful for family members. You can't take bath or play with the waves because of too many rocks, but it's all about beauty that you can enjoy. French Colony is the place you need to pass through before entering into this beach, and you will see it so wonderful. We normally spend our evening time here, and after 9.30 get back to Auro Beach, which is around 7 kms away from here.

French Beach

Paradise Beach

This is the best beach there. However, expensive. There are beautiful places, like room at the tree, or in between the water where you can spend your day and night. If for honeymoon couple, this beach is for them. Then, one has to travel through this artificial lake to reach the beach paying certain amount - this reduces the population of the beach and helps to make the beach clean. You get to see blue water here. You can drink if you want in the beach, but again it's expensive!

Crocodile Park

Do you love riding? Take a bike and get enough fuel. Now travel 110 km ahead at Crocodile Park, which lies just 35 kms away from Chennai. There are lot of crocodiles, somewhere around thousand of them, mostly hidden inside and different types of crocodiles here. You will get to see them. They say, they even send crocodiles from this palce to Nepal. But, it's basically about the bike riding experience that you will love. Try your best, not to let your bike owner that you went there, else they will charge you even more. But, if you want to go by bus to this place, I suggest not to, rather visit here once you are at Chennai.

Crocodiles!

Bikes/Scooty

If you own license from any part of the world, don't hesitate to take a bike. Even if you don't own it, take it, just make sure you won't ride at off hours and let police to suspect you. Even if you are caught, you can escape bribing around Rs 200. It's suggestible to take an auto or bike and travel around places, as this is small state, you can visit all places within a day if you manage your time properly and if you own your rented vehicle.

We were all set for long ride!

Aregga!

These Ugandan friends of mine term it Aregga! It's actually drinks - alcohol. They are cheap here, not as cheap as Goa but still cheap. You get to buy bottle of beer at Rs 69 (when MRP at Andhra was 105) and you get to see big stores of liquors from place to place. There are different varieties of alcohol here and you get to taste it at least price.