Places to visit in Puducherry
15 places to visit in Puducherry (Pondicherry), each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Arikamedu, Auroville, French Quarter and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Puducherry volume.
1 National monument · 3 Famous places to visit · 11 Hidden gems
National monuments in Puducherry (1)
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Arikamedu
A Roman trading post of the first century, where Mediterranean amphorae have been dug out of the Ariyankuppam bank.
Famous places to visit in Puducherry (3)
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Auroville
An experimental township founded in 1968 to belong to no nation, built around a gold sphere called the Matrimandir.
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French Quarter
Grid streets of yellow walled houses with bougainvillea, street names in two languages, and a Tamil quarter across the canal.
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Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The samadhi under the service tree.
Hidden gems in Puducherry (11)
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Aayi Mandapam
A white monument in Bharathi Park raised by Napoleon III to the woman who gave up her house for a water works.
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Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Gothic, in French Indian white and brown.
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Immaculate Conception Cathedral
The white and brown church of 1791 on Mission Street, Puducherry's cathedral.
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Karaikal Beach
A quiet stretch of Coromandel sand in the second district of Puducherry, a hundred and fifty kilometres down the coast.
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Mahe Walkway
A riverside promenade in a French district of nine square kilometres surrounded entirely by Kerala.
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Manakula Vinayagar Temple
The temple elephant, and the sixteen sided pillar.
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Ousteri Lake
One of the most important wetlands in south India.
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Paradise Beach
Reached by boat across the backwater.
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Promenade Beach
One and a half kilometres of seafront closed to traffic every evening, along the old French town.
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Tirunallar Saniswaran Temple
The Saturn temple people come to when Saturn moves, and the queues are days long.
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Yanam Riverfront
A French enclave on the Godavari delta until 1954, four hundred kilometres from the rest of Puducherry.
Collecting in Puducherry
What are the best places to visit in Puducherry?
LOQAH lists 15 places in Puducherry. The best known include Arikamedu, Auroville, French Quarter, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Aayi Mandapam. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Puducherry?
15, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Puducherry?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Puducherry before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Puducherry and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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