Last weekend (the weekend of the 19th) one of the fellows from Hyderabad and I took the overnight bus to go meet up with the Bangalore fellows in Pondicherry. For those of you who have read or watched Life of Pi, Pondicherry might sound a little familiar. It's the setting of the entire first half of the book, a small costal town infused with French culture left over from it's colonial days.
It was awesome seeing the other fellows and catching up!
We also visited the nearby Auroville, which according to Wikipedia "is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.
So basically, it's a hippie town.
It was awesome seeing the other fellows and catching up!
We also visited the nearby Auroville, which according to Wikipedia "is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.
So basically, it's a hippie town.
water vortex
The Matrimandir...the center and symbol of Auraville. It looks slightly of Epcot...
Me hugging a Banyan tree, basically the best tree ever.
Local Hindu temple for Ganesh (we weren't allowed to take pictures inside)
One of the churches in Pondicherry
Watching the service being done in Hindi was really interesting
The ocean
The beach
It's great to be able to see more of India. Hopefully more weekend trips will be to come....
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