A Big NO To Pondicherry or Puducherry whatever you call it.
Yes you read it right, from childhood I had listen and read many stories about Pondicherry, Saw some beautiful movies shot in Pondicherry and always had a dream to go there once. But all those Dreams shattered as I entered the Pondicherry.
Pondicherry is very very small place, it is 492 square kilometer or you can say 20 X 24.6 Km including everything, it ends before it starts (Just for your reference Goa is 3,702 square km). It is a Poor Union Territory with no Development visible if compared to the other states of India. The Local people are good but it is surrounded by Tamil Nadu. People from Tamil Nadu come to Pondicherry for cheap Booz and create nuisance and crimes. This is the reason why this place is not even safe.
I with my wife and kid had stayed in Puducherry for 5 days and had tried Ola and Cab from Make my Trip. Drivers from both the services were Pathetic, Rude and Cheat. I am not saying that everyone there is like that but the four Drivers I came in Contact in first four Days were like that only and had spoiled the fun and feeling of the trip. Then I searched the Google and found “
Udaya Tourist Cab Rental”, he had very good ratings so I called Mr. Udaya. I inquired about a site seeing package with drop at Chennai he said 4500 which was 1000 bucks more for what other people had asked for same package. Then I told him about my situation he understood and assured me of the Professionalism of Driver and cleanliness of cab and I booked him. Which turned out to be a good decision. For a simple decent service which we get most of the time in North India on the basic fare only but to get that also in Pondicherry we have to pay premium. Even after reading this you decide to go to Pondicherry with family then book cabs from here.
There is not a one good tourist attraction here, believe me I am a photographer and loves taking pictures but even after visiting all the Tourist Points here I had not even bothered to bring out camera from my bag (below you will see lot of pictures but they are of my Resort, Room and from the Life at the Beach in front of my resort).
In the name of French Architecture there is just one and a half small street and that’s it. In the name of French Bakeries in Pondicherry you will find one good spot "
Baker Street" and that’s it. I found
Coromandel Cafe interesting but its bit on expensive side.
So on the whole you have nothing to do in Pondicherry except relax at your resort and stroll on the beach. On the Name of Beach Resorts there are very few of them and most of the Beaches in front of them are Dirty. The Best Beach Resort in Pondicherry is “Le Pondy Beach Resort” which is obviously very expensive. They had kept their personal staff to clean the beach in front of their property.
So we stayed 4 nights at Luxury Pool Villa of
Le Pondy Beach Resort which saved my trip. If we didn’t even had the property and beach in front of it to enjoy then surely we would have had a very very bad trip. But on the whole saved by the Luxury Pool Villa and Beach area in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort.
On the whole Pondicherry is big No by me.
Caution - People will say that they had enjoyed Pondicherry or they had enjoyed this resort or that resort of Pondicherry. Don’t forget to ask them in detail 99% of them had just had a brief visit to Pondicherry and rest of the time had enjoyed the Big and Beautiful beach Resorts “Near” Pondicherry which are not in Pondicherry. For example “Taj Fisherman's Cove Resort & Spa” is famous as the Pondicherry resort but in reality it is near Chennai and 2hr 30min away from Pondicherry.
Below I am posting pictures as I took them . . .
All the Pictures are from
Camera - Canon EOS M50
Lens - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
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| A Doll face on Beach in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019. |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Freshly Caught Fish at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Crab in the Net at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Fisherman taking out crabs from net at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Storm Time shot taken at the Beach in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Waves at the Beach in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Waves at the Beach in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| A Kid Enjoying at the Beach in front of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 29-Oct-2019 |
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| Swimming Pool and Restaurant area at Le Pondy Beach Resort Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| A lady staff of Le Pondy Beach Resort cleaning the Beach in front of it's property- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| A Fisherman trying to control his boat at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry from Beach - 30-Oct-2019 |
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| Rabbit in the gardens of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| Path way back to Luxury Pool Villas at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 30-Oct-2019 |
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| It's Raining - 30-Oct-2019 |
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| Crab Near the Pool at my Luxury Pool Villas at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry - 30-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Pool area at Luxury Pool Villa, Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Pool area at Luxury Pool Villa, Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Pool area at Luxury Pool Villa, Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Way back to your Villas at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Kids Playing area at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Sea Facing Rooms at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Sea Facing Rooms with pool area and restaurant at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Pool Area at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Pool and Restaurant at the back at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Sunrise from Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Sunrise from the Beach of Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Lady Cleaning the Beach at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry Staff of Le Pondy- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot of Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| A Local Fisherman showing me Lobsters his catch of day at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Fisherman bringing there boat back to shore at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Fisherman bringing there boat back to shore at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Shot at Fisherman Area near Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| A Leaf - 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Bathroom View of Luxury Pool Villa at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Room at Luxury Pool Villa, Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| View of Room at Luxury Pool Villa, Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Bathroom View of Luxury Pool Villa at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Restaurant View at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Restaurant View at Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 31-Oct-2019 |
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| Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Back to Villas - Le Pondy Beach Resort, Pondicherry- 1-Oct-2019 |
From Pondicherry we took cab for the site seeing at Mahabalipuram then drop at Chennai, So below are few pics from what we saw in Mahabalipuram.
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Main Beach of Mahabalipuram- 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
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| Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram - 1-Oct-2019 |
Good location for horror movie shoot though..
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