One Day Trip to Pondicherry and Auroville - 5 Jan 2019

Had an amazing day trip to Pondicherry and Auroville.   Auroville visiting point is closed on Sunday afternoons and it is better to visit the place before 12 noon on Sundays.

Started at 7 am from Chennai and reached Auroville after a leisure breakfast break and marathon related detours around 10 am-  Spent good 2 hours in Auroville enjoying the greenary, serenity and spirituality of the place.  

Auroville

Pondicherry Mankula Vinayagar Temple and Aurobindo Ashram

From there we started and visited Manakula vinayakar temple by 12.15 and spent an hour before the temple closed at 1 pm.  

Pondicherry

Then headed to heart filling lunch at Kamatchi Mess 

Then came back to Aurobindo and Mother Ashram by 2.30 pm and spent good one hour near the Samadhi and in meditation.    

Did a bit of shopping and strolling around the lanes of Pondicherry before we hit the road to Chennai.   

Marakannam Sri Bhoomeshwar Temple

On the way back near the Marakannam junction, we stopped to visit the Bhoomeshwar temple, a very old temple where you will find Suryan and Chandran together.  and then on the way back, 

ECR Lord Jaganathar Temple

Opp to Mayajaal on ECR,  we stopped to visit the Lord Jaganathar Temple around 6pm for the evening aarthi and prasad and started back home at 7 pm.    

I had the great company of my ever green rathasarathi Raghu and lovely girls Hema and Jaya from my team and we had an amazing day of spirituality, great food, great drive,  not hurried leisure getaway for a day and amazing temple visits and above all the best of meditation time at the Ashram!

Not just spirits, spirituality can also drive you to Pondy and you can still have the great ardeline rush!