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  All of us travel at least once in a lifetime for our own different reasons. Some of us love to lay on bright, sunny beaches, enjoy the sun bath and swimming in sea water, some of us love to climb beautiful mountains covered with snow and love to enjoy the thrill of mountaineering, some of us love to travel for pilgrimage to pay the devotion to god. We book the tickets of plane, train or bus or we drive by ourselves to our destination, we stay at some hotel, we visit the places we like, we enjoy the local food, we click the photographs and we come back to our home after spending wonderful vacation. Are we missing something?  No? Definitely we are missing something or rather someone. We are missing or ignoring the people of the land, we visit. Most of the times, we are giving them least preference. After all why do we travel to some distant land? The answer to this question is very simple, we travel to see, to experience and to feel a lot more things which are much different from our n

 Our course in eye school was about to complete and our stay in Pondicherry was about to end. We were feeling nervous but at the same time we were eager to go home. We had a brief photo session with everybody in the eye school and said goodbye to all. We met our friends Rajashree and Aruna, who were so kind, friendly and helped us throughout our stay. We said goodbye to everybody including Charulata and Prapanna. Next morning we were going to check out and heading towards Chennai. But there was small problem, our train from Chennai was on Saturday morning and we were leaving Pondicherry on Friday afternoon, (we had to check out because our course in eye school was now finished) there were around 20 hours in between to spend and we had no plan ready with us as usual. Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram      We left our guest house next day, it was almost 11 am  in the morning, we haven't had breakfast and were hungry. So we started searching for a good restaurant in that hot humid morn

On the next day we did not go anywhere outside the Pondicherry. We visited few noted places like ‘Vinayagar Temple’ of Lord Ganesha, ‘Immaculate Cathedral’ and Romain Rolland Library. Romain Rolland library located on Romain Rolland street (previously known as Bibliotheque Publique)  is one of the oldest library in India named after notable French scholar ‘Romain Rolland’. This library contains over 300,000 volumes in different languages.  We visited a sweet mart run by Ashrama in the city and enjoyed eating Bengali sweets, sometimes trying the fast food on the Chinese corner and also special Tamil meal on the banana leaf in traditional Tamil restaurant. Serving food on the banana leaf reminded me of my own Maharashtrian culture and felt like at home. Our next plan was to visit Pichavaram, largest mangrove forest in India, on the backwaters of Vellar and Colerron rivers and about eighty kilometers from Pondicherry. We enquired at the Bus stand about the bus availability and the frequen