Stay Eat free in Auroville – India's Best kept secret. Experimental town in Pondicherry Tamil Nadu

For me #Auroville is not a Tourist place but an experience.
When we reached Auroville, we were clueless about how things work here & it took us more than a week to figure out what to do & whom to approach.
This video is made to answer all those questions & for people like us who were struggling to understand Auroville. Only if someone else had made this video & we would have had watched it, our Auroville trip would have been easier.
Nonetheless, we found out the struggles of the city & made a full detailed #vlog on the same.

So we took a flight to Chennai & then hired a cab who drove for 3 hours via the costal road. (cab contact details mentioned below)
We initially stayed in Peace Garden & then moved to Time Traveler hostel.
If you are coming to Auroville as a tourist, I recommend you to stay in Time Traveler as it offers a wide range of staying options, from sharing rooms to AC private rooms & it is right opposite the Matri Mandir parking, which makes Auroville very accesibel.
Rent a scotty for INR 300 (contact details mentioned below) & head to Matri Mandir parking area. From there you can visit the tourist areas of Auroville, get pictures clicked from a distance of Matrimandir, do some shopping of clothes , ornaments , cute home deocrs, plants & many more.
Fill yourself up with some organic vegan food at the cute cafes inside Auroville.

But that is not the real Auroville.
Auroville is a place where you get to discover who you really are & what are you best at.
It provides the environment where you forget everything about the outer world & focus all your energy in finding the skill that you are gifted with.
Auroville has more than 80 communities which deals in different sectors.
You can check the list below, google them & whichever field you want to work in, choose a community accordingly.
The community that you work in, will help you with accommodation & food.
You can volunteer in one community only for a few hours so you would be working in different shits in different places in a day so that life doesn’t get monotonous.
Even if you don’t have a particular skill, you can still join the community where in they will teach you before asking you to start working with them.
If you are looking to find a hidden talent in you or you want to improve on an existing skill or just want to gain knowledge & experience in any sector, you can do that in Auroville for free.
Initially, book a room in a place that is run by Auroville community (list mentioned below) so that you get an Auro card which will be a license to roam around in the city.
Every community offers 1 free session in a week. Try to attend all such events so that you can figure out which communities you want to work with.
To get the list of ongoing events, find out notice boards in cafes, hostels or Auroville Information Centre.
And instead of just clicking pictures with Matrimandir in background, try its free meditation session , link given below

List of communities – https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Communities
Attend workshops, classes & therapies – https://auroville.org/page/workshops-and-therapies
Join Auroville – https://auroville.org/page/join-auroville
Meditation in Matrimandir – https://auroville.org/page/visiting-the-matrimandir
Auroville guesthouse – https://guesthouses.auroville.org/
Solitude farm – https://solitude.farm/9
Scooty on rent – 09443497450 / 09047539450 (Location – near Peace Garden stay)
Pottery – 8072380290 / 9843848787
Auroville Taxi Services – 09442566256 / 08098776644

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Time stamp
00:00 – 00:14 Introduction to Auroville
00:15 – 00:28 Matri Mandir
00:29 – 02:59 Swaram Musical experience
03:00 – 03:23 Auroville beaches
03:24 – 04:30 Real Auroville
04:31 – 04:59 Map of Auroville / list of communities
05:00 – 05:11 Volunteer in restaurant
05:12 – 07:36 Interview with Aurovilian / How to become an Aurovilian
07:37 – 08:25 Stay options in Auroville / Auro card
08:26 – 16:27 Solitude Farm
16:28 – 17:42 Treehouse Community
17:43 – 18:13 Pottery lesson at Sri Ganapathy Pottery
18:14 – 18:30 List of current events
18:31 – 22:25 Peaceful Youth Centre
22:26 – 22:57 Kala Bhumi Studio Music event
22:58 – 23:51 Auroville experience
23:52 – 24:35 Closing

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