A sandbar beach reached only by a twenty-minute boat ride through the Chunnambar backwater, with clean sand and shallow water.
The ticket covers the return boat. Last boat back is usually 5pm and they enforce it. It gets crowded on weekends — go on a weekday morning.
A neo-Gothic basilica of 1907 in the Tamil quarter, with 24 stained-glass panels telling the life of…
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A grid of colonial-era streets between the canal and the sea, painted mustard and white, with…
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A 1.2 km sea wall and promenade closed to vehicles every evening, with the Gandhi statue, the old…
A Ganesha temple that predates the French, with 40 gold-covered panels inside and a resident temple…