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Hotel De L'orient is one of the known heritage
hotels of India. The heritage hotel captures the essence of coastal
Pondicherry.De l'orient heritage hotel offers 10 traditionally furnished
rooms with modern facilities. Hotel de l'Orient heritage hotel combines
memory and desire in a way that is so quintessentially French that you are
transported into another age and time. At this heritage hotel you can open
high glass windows into the internal court or on the street below. You can
let your tall louvered blinds play with the tropical sun and wind. The hotel
has Colonial furniture, both amusing and hybrid. In the Carte Blanche
restaurant at the de l'orient heritage hotel, you can see rare old maps;
savor the renowned Creole cuisine, where Tamil spices mix with French
restraint.
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FACILITIES
Colonial furniture, both amusing and hybrid, fills the high-beamed
spaces as you awake in four - poster beds or lounge in remarkable easy
chairs which risk - all too often - a mixing of reading with intermittent
siestas.
Walk barefoot on cool red or ivory floors. Tread the Savonnerie durries
which have been revived on the pit loms of Jaipur. Admire the fine cotton
blinds, the chintzes and indiennes, reprinted to orginal 18th century
designs.
The artifacts of the area adorn the living and public spaces: Ravi Varma
oleographs kitsch terracottas polychrome in garish colours, carved wooden
bedlegs turned into lamps, dowry chests which serve as luggage racks. Large,
old mirrors shows new faces as you wonder back though the time-warp tunnel
that Pondicherry is.
Postcards that were mailed out of Pondicherry to France, now return to their
soil revealing black and white photographs of a bygone era. The Sisters of
Cluny's work continues across the road in the finest embroideries.
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