Who flies to the other side of the planet and comes within an hour of seeing the Taj Mahal, and doesn’t see the Taj Mahal?

Nobody. Especially not me.

Namaste! I’m back with another post to talk about the second-to-last destination we visited during our recent trip to India: Jaipur.

When I asked Ryan if there was anywhere he wanted to check out during our India trip, he didn’t hesitate at all to request a few days in Puducherry (Pondicherry).

*A quick note: The town is now formally called Puducherry, but is still widely known as Pondicherry and is known to locals as “Pondy,” so I’ll refer to it as all three interchangeably in the following post.

After we wrapped up our time in Anjuna, Goa, Ryan and I caught a flight to Chennai, and then took a taxi ride to Pondicherry.

So… if you haven’t been following along, I just wrapped up four incredible weeks at my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program in Rishikesh, India.

It was a wonderful experience, but it was intense! It was basically non-stop 16-hour days of learning, which my middle-aged brain hasn’t really had to do in quite some time.

Which led me to a beach. In Goa.

But only after the worst airport layover experience I have ever had in my entire life.