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Pondicherry (sometimes also known as Puducherry) is located in southern India near Auroville (a place where tourists can go to observe a cult in-action...In this video, we took a moment to stop and note our impressions of Pondicherry (or Puducherry, whatever you prefer) before bombarding ourselves with Auroville (because we knew Auroville was going to be a little weird). We'd already been in India for a few ...
Before traveling to Chennai, India, I had no idea what "Auroville" was. I thought the best tourist attraction in the area was the Kapaleeswarar Temple in Chennai...but Auroville did WOW us and not in the typical way that tourist attractions do either! Auroville is a city where a small cult of followers worship a woman who calls herself The Mother. But shhhh...we don't talk about it, because there's NO ...
In 2016, we took a train to Pondicherry from Chennai when we decided to visit Auroville, one of the places to visit in Pondicherry. The train ride was about 5 hours long, and Auroville itself was a short distance from the Pondicherry train station by taxi (there are plenty of cabs and tuk tuks waiting outside the train station). This video follows our adventure on the Indian train from Chennai to ...
This video provides just a brief snapshot of the social situation on an Indian train from Chennai to Pondicherry in 2016. We were on this train for almost 5 hours, and we enjoyed every minute when there weren't as many passengers (while still trying to observe the unique social environment the rest of the time). We had booked a taxi to take us from Pondicherry back to Chennai instead of taking the train ...
On the train from Chennai to Pondicherry, we saw a lot of things out the train window. In this video, Jennifer expresses some of her thoughts on women's clothing and other passengers on the train.Related Posts:Pondicherry India Tourism: Lost in Translation with John (video)Pondicherry India Tourism: People on the Train from Chennai to Pondicherry (video)Pondicherry India Tourism: Chennai to ...
We visited southern India in August 2016. While taking a taxi from Pondicherry back to Chennai, John had an interesting (but barely intelligible) conversation with our taxi driver. Poor John always gets stuck in these sorts of strange people situations...Related Posts:Pondicherry India Tourism: Auroville (video)Pondicherry India Tourism: Chennai to Pondicherry Train (video)Chennai Tourism: ...
We spent very little time in “Pondi”. Our home base was in Chennai, India and we made a day trip using trains and taxis to Auroville and back. Auroville is a small planned community near Puducherry where Sri Aurobindo and a woman known as “The Mother” are trying to create utopia on earth.
The train took us directly from Chennai to Pondi in about 4 ½ hours one way (Train #56037). We ...
The train took us directly from Chennai to Pondi in about 4 ½ hours one way (Train #56037). We ...
Auroville is close to Puducherry (also known as Pondicherry or Pondi), only about 6 to 7 miles away. After you arrive at the train station, you can proceed to the street outside and hire a rickshaw to take you to Auroville. Make sure you negotiate the cost of the trip with your driver and write down the agreed upon amount before you set out. Don’t pay up front for a rickshaw ride.
When we ...
When we ...