Clean, cheap, air-conditioned South Indian meals that locals rate.
Mission Street
1
A Ganesha temple that predates the French, with 40 gold-covered panels inside and a resident temple elephant most days.
2
A grid of colonial-era streets between the canal and the sea, painted mustard and white, with bougainvillea over every wall.
3
The ashram founded in 1926, centred on the flower-covered samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a quiet courtyard.
4
A 1.2 km sea wall and promenade closed to vehicles every evening, with the Gandhi statue, the old lighthouse and the pier.