Hotel Surguru Pondicherry

... with our driver who was driving a sort of Indian model of a Toyota landcruiser which didn't have seatbelts. The drive to Pondicherry from Chennai was shocking- I have never seen so many people out at night, so many crumbling buildings, and people sleeping ...

... 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 ...

... . The rooms are clean, spacious and come with attached bathroom and cable tv. The inn has a delicious vegetarian restaurant within. Pondicherry is located on the southeastern coast of India along the Bay of Bengal. Until 50 years ago, Pondy was a ...

So here we are, finally, it is almost 05:00 and we are at the Pondicherry bus station. We jumped on two rickshaws (because of the entire luggage) and headed directly to the Maison Raja in the Indian part of town. The security guard greeted us warmly and ...

... out. Some of the buildings are nice and new well others are old and falling apart.  However, I believe that Pondicherry University is receiving sufficient funds from the government because there is a lot of construction going on on campus.  ...