White Town
Things to do
- Meditate at the Samadhi: Silent sitting around the marble Samadhi.
Top sights
Pondicherry Museum
Small government museum in Bharathi Park with Arikamedu Roman finds, Chola and Pallava sculpture, bronzes and French colonial objects.
Manakula Vinayagar Temple
Old Ganesha temple near the seafront, older than the French settlement, with a gold chariot taken out at Dussehra.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Spiritual community founded in 1926 holding the white marble Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.
Old Lighthouse Puducherry
29 m lighthouse of 1835 on Goubert Avenue, decommissioned in 1979; seen from the Promenade.
Varadaraja Perumal Temple
ASI protected monument in Pondicherry
Vedapureeswarar Temple
Hindu temple in Puducherry, India
Where to eat
Le Cafe
Seafront cafe by the Gandhi statue on Beach Road, open round the clock.
Coromandel Cafe
Garden cafe in a colonial house in White Town for brunch and dinner.
Bread and Chocolate
Organic, mostly plant-based cafe and chocolate shop on Auroville Main Road.
Surguru
Long-running vegetarian restaurant near the ashram for South Indian meals and filter coffee.
La Pasta World
Small Italian pasta place on Vysial Street.
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