Your Favourite Holiday Destination- Pondicherry

For some, March is the closing year and for some, it isn’t and this remains the same even for your spouse but what about your kids? You know that they are already extremely weary and exhausted from the mundane custom of their daily school life and are in surge to have a weekend trip off to an enlightening escapade and I do agree that it will leave you bewildered thinking where to take them but a place filled with French aroma, seafront meander, colonial architecture, religiously significant and a destination just 3 hours from Chennai can never make you re-think and, Rathimeena Travels and Universal Travels are some of the common travels you will get to see for reaching this place from Chennai. Here are some of the most-liked places to visit in Pondicherry:

Promenade, a seafront also known as Goubert Avenue is one such place where you will feel revitalizing with the calm and serene nature of the place. Take a stroll either in the morning or at the evening, sight-seeing the Gandhi statue and several other French buildings and drinking coffee at the coffee stalls nearby. Finally, sit on the black colored rocks and take snaps with your closed ones.

Auroville is one such place famed for meditation and for those who desire to learn more about spirituality. It was initiated by Sri Aurobindo for making people attain divine perfection and know the meaning of their presence through peaceful living with one another. This place also houses Matrimandir which glows when sun’s rays fall on it. It is widely considered as a place of interest.

Manakula Vinayagar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Ganesha. It is considered as one of the best pilgrimage sites in Pondicherry with different names of Ganesha referred here and this isn’t much, people say whoever leaves abroad for business purpose visits this place and start as it is considered to bring good fortune. There is a chariot in this place that is constructed of 7.5kgs of gold that is made through donations of thousands of devotees and runs once a year on Dussehra.

Finally, with so many places to visit, Pondicherry can be the perfect getaway for your families and friends to get to know about the French culture and tradition. Book your bus tickets in TicketGoose right away!