The Dune Eco village Beach Resort of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

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Dune Eco Group is a small chain of luxury hotels in South India and Sri Lanka. They offer an extraordinary insight into culture of this region, its people and landscapes. Their hotels are spread over Kerala, Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu, built using reclaimed materials and furnitures from colonial houses, palaces, Kerala planters mansion and so on. Puducherry, formerly known as Pondicherry, is a Union Territory of India formed out of four enclaves of former French India and named after the largest, Pondicherry. The Tamil name is Puducherry, which means "New Town". Historically known as Pondicherry, the territory changed its official name to Puducherry in 2006. It is also known as "The French Riviera of the East". Puducherry is a Union Territory of India rather a state, which implies that gov