From Mahabalipurum we headed south on the East Coast Road till Pondicherry which was a former French colony and is considered an autonomous state where French is still an official language. This place was full of tourists!
Yes, 20 kids packed on one autorickshaw
The city is a strange place in South India where the traffic is not too crazy and the streets are clean and full of Mediterranean style houses. They have museums with lots of European antiques. At night, a lot of locals hang out in European parks and on the beach by the ocean front, where a big statue of Gandhi