Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
7 places · showing 1–7
1
A grid of colonial-era streets between the canal and the sea, painted mustard and white, with bougainvillea over every wall.
2
A 1.2 km sea wall and promenade closed to vehicles every evening, with the Gandhi statue, the old lighthouse and the pier.
3
An international township founded in 1968, built around a golden geodesic meditation chamber in a landscaped park.
4
A sandbar beach reached only by a twenty-minute boat ride through the Chunnambar backwater, with clean sand and shallow water.
5
The ashram founded in 1926, centred on the flower-covered samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a quiet courtyard.
6
A Ganesha temple that predates the French, with 40 gold-covered panels inside and a resident temple elephant most days.
7
A neo-Gothic basilica of 1907 in the Tamil quarter, with 24 stained-glass panels telling the life of Christ.