Pondicherry Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today we spent the day doing HFH orientation. This included the rules and regs for the sites - anything from safety to interactions with the villagers. This orientation concluded with our first visit to the village. We will be working on three homes in the village: 1. Single mom with two kids, husband recently passed away - The family is current...

I never thought my level of French would be a problem in India but despite no men in berets with Garlic around their necks I love Pondicherry. Maybe because it seems so calm and friendly, maybe because I'm in a lovely-big clean (expensive at 6pounds a night) room and maybe because I met some really nice other travelers and spent a day expolring ...

I waited at the bus stand for a couple of hours and then decided to go looking for a hotel. I was referring to the Lonely Planet's India travel guide. I had identified two hotels on the beach road to check out. I took a rickshaw to one of the hotels. There were no rooms available there. The front desk was also closed. They opened during the day ...

Here are some pictures from our two day conference! It was very successful, and the social worker from Sharana even came to hear our presentation. Afterwards, we were presented with certificates, and had a banquet dinner. We are all bittersweet about leaving, because we have all had such a great time here. All of our luggage is down in the lobby...

Give Time a Break, Peaceful Puducherry "Give Time a Break in Peaceful Puducherry" is the tagline that was pitched to me over and over again through various tourist sites for Pondicherry. Not only does it sprinkle the web advertisements, it also smothers the pages of tourist pamphlets that one receives in Pondicherry. But you see, the thing is th...

Monday July 7, 2008 Today was an interesting one, beginning with overwhelming apprehension but ending quite well. Jessie and I began the day with a little bit of mixed information, as Priya, the very helpful (but new) program assistant, had been in communication with us but due to language barriers/phone reception issues we were unable to pin d...

After our last Indian overnight train, we arrived in Pondicherry. It was one of the few French colonies in India and it is still heavily French. The streets are rue's, everything is written in French first, then English, and every menu has baguettes on it. It's a cute, little town, but most people come here for the Mother and Sri Aurobindo - bas...

Wellll, it's been so long i don't even know where to start...as you can see from the map joe and i have been right down the western coast to the utter most tip and started going up the other side... So here's a quick run down: Upon leaving Om beach we made our way down to Alleppey, the gateway to the backwaters of kerala...found ourselves stayin...

everything about this trip so far has been a pleasant surprise, an accidental joy, a fortuitous adventure. the work i'm doing is a continuation of this summer -- valuing the operations of a company (albeit a financial non-profit that is in the process of transforming into a non-banking financial company) in an effort to convince potential buyers...

Watching the introductory video at the Auroville Visitors Center was the heftiest dose of idealism I've received since college. To oversimplify, Auroville is a place that belongs to no one group, a place that stresses human unity above all. As a community, it should transcend nationality or religion. The names to know regarding Auroville are Sri...