Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Pondicherry’

I have always professed a great love for traveling with a cultivated fascination for visiting places seldom explored by archetypal tourists. I am rather predictable in my vociferous dislike for visiting national monuments or botanical gardens tucked away a little too neatly under the foul armpits of polluted hill stations. Having been a land scout [...]

Read Full Post »

Citrus-flavoured vodka and top-notch hallucinatory substances are preferred luxuries. Taking a weekend road trip to Pondicherry with a bloke from Macondo, a local ninja and a captain seemed like a basic necessity.
In those precious hours, I discovered that the local restaurant – Rendezvous has a killer steak sizzler and that I have a passion for [...]

Read Full Post »

About 23 kilometers before the Pondicherry bus stop, paradise lies obscure and silent. The Alambara backwaters. Perfectly hidden inside a secluded village off the Mahaballipuram-Pondicherry highway, the backwaters is known to the locals as Frenchie Kotai Orru.
Apart from a grand blue ocean, this village is also home to a French fort, which doubled up as [...]

Read Full Post »