Pondicherry
Pondicherry, officially known as Puducherry, is the capital and most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the southeast coast of India and is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal to the east and the state of Tamil Nadu, with which it shares most of its culture, heritage, and language. Wikipedia
Before you go
Emergency numbers in India
- January: 11 h 30 of daylight
- February: 11 h 45 of daylight
- March: 12 h 03 of daylight
- April: 12 h 23 of daylight
- May: 12 h 40 of daylight
- June: 12 h 49 of daylight
- July: 12 h 46 of daylight
- August: 12 h 31 of daylight
- September: 12 h 12 of daylight
- October: 11 h 53 of daylight
- November: 11 h 35 of daylight
- December: 11 h 26 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Our Lady of Angels Church Monument · 470 m
- Restaurant Paris Residency Hotel · 210 m
- Aqua Guru Aquarium · 340 m
- Notre-Dame de Pondicherry Attraction · 340 m
- Chidambaram Pillai (1872-1936) Monument · 510 m
- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Library Museum · 520 m
- Sculpture Monument · 520 m
- B. R. Ambedkar Monument · 530 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Eating nearby
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