Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Travel Andaman




Distance - 1400 Kms Approx. from Chennai. (Flight/Ship)
Travel period - Depends. Minimum preferred  period is 5 days.
Time to reach - 2 hours
Type - Island
Best time to visit - December to February
Famous for: Rasgolla (Sweet) / Sea foods

Let's begin our journey:
Preferable time to leave Chennai - Early morning (As per flight/Ship timings). Recommend Flight.


 

 Day 1:
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Board the flight @ Chennai/Kolkatta and by the time you start to settle you will reach Port Blair.
*Once you come out of the airport try to book a hotel nearby. Get freshen up and start the tour by booking a taxi to roam in Port Blair.
*Start with out
1st destination - Anthropological Museum (The museum displays/explains most of the things related to tribes)

Anthropological Museum


*Lets move on to our 2nd destination - Samudrika (Marine museum which explains about marine life)

Samudrika


*Our
3rd destination will be Marina Park (Beautiful park with sports activities, Childrens play area next to Samudrika)

Marina Park


*4th destination will be the famous heritage "Cellular Jail". Wonderful and very well maintained historical place with the cells of Veer Savarkar, Oil mills, Photo gallery, Mess watch tower etc.

Cellular Jail


*Lets have some beautiful lunch and relax at the hotel for sometime and get back to the Cellular Jail for
Sound and Light show which takes place for about an hour which includes the history of Andaman, Cellular Jail, Freedom fighters, war etc.
*Once the show is over lets head to food street and have variety of food and finish of our dinner and return to our rooms.

 

Day 2:
*Let's have a nice breakfast and head onto Jetty for visiting the Islands nearby and buy tickets for Ross/Northbay/Viper Islands. 

Ross Island


North Bay Island


*Let's get onto the boat for our 5th destination Ross island (Capital of British) and we will get 1 hour to visit the island and get back to the boat. In Ross Island we can see the Church, Club, Press, Swimming pool, Water distilling plant, Museum, Bakery etc. which were used by the Britishers. This is one of the best place for family holidays.
*Let's move to our 6th destination which is called as North bay (Famous for Corals and importantly brain Coral). The pic at the back of the 20 Rs note is of North bay. Before we enter the island we can opt for few activities like glass bottom boat, Snorkeling, Scuba diving etc. Kindly do not miss glass bottom boat ride. In the glass bottom boat ride we can see the underwater corals and especially the Brian coral which is amazing.
*Next let's move to our 7th destination which is the Viper island.
*Let's end our day with this and return back to our rooms.

 

 Day 3:
*Let's go the Jetty and travel to Havelock Island which is our 8th destination in a cruse. (Boat takes 2hours/ few boat takes 45 mins to reach).
*Let's go to a nice beach resort for stay and hire two wheeler's /car for rent and start our journey with Kala Pattar beach which is our 9th destination.

Kala Pattar Beach


*Next head onto Vijaynagar beach which is our 10th destination.
*Next will be the awesome Govindnagar beach which is our 11th destination.
*Let's give a break for the day and relax @ the resort.

 

Day 4:
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Let's go for early Scuba around 7 AM.
*Once done with the Scuba let's head towards Jetty to travel to our 12th destination Elephanta beach. Beautiful beach with lots of activities like Snorkeling, Banana ride, Jet Skie and many more activities and we can have a lot of fun and enjoy playing in water.
*We can even reach the beach by walking for about an hour.

Elephanta Beach


*Let's head back to our resort and end our day.

 

Day 5:

*Let's visit the most famous and largest Radhanagar beach which is our 13th destination. The beach is one of the very largest and a clean beach in Asia. The Sunset is very beautiful and its a must visit place.

Radhanagar Beach


*Get back to the resort and vacate the rooms and get ready to return to Port Blair.
*Relax in Port Blair and be ready to travel early the next day, Say around 4:30 AM.


Day 6:

*Book a cab prior and leave Port Blair @4:30 towards Jirkatang where the gate will open @ 6 AM.
*Once the gate is open you should travel in a convoy with a constant speed without overtaking, no stopping to reach our 14th destination Bharatang.

Bharatang Island


*As soon as we cross our self in a ferry then we have to hire a boat to go to Mangrove forest which is our 15th destination. The boat ride inside the Mangrove forest is a mind blowing and amazing experience. Also beware of crocodiles around the forest.

Mangrove_Forest


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Our journey continues towards the Limestone cave - 16th destination. Once we get down from the boat we have to walk for around 1.2 Kms to reach the cave. The Limestone is formed due to the water of the rainfall which occurs and also due to the darkness where sunlight doesn't fall at all. The lime stone keeps on growing day by day and we can see a lot of idols in the lime stone.

Limestone Cave


*Next lets visit Parrot Island - 17th destination.
*18th destination
will be Mud Valcano.
*Let's continue our journey towards Ranghat and visit Moricedera beach - 19th destination. The beach contains a watch tower with bridges for a wonderful view of the beach.


Moricedera Beach
*Move towards Mayabunder beach and relax for sometime - 20th destination.
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Reach Diglipur (North Andaman) and relax nicely.

 

 Day 7:

*Wake up and Visit Kalpong dam - 21st destination.
*After that move to visit Ross and Smith Island which is a very beautiful 22nd destination close to Myanmar/Thailand. This is a marvelous beach which we cannot forget. The beach is in between two islands "Ross & Smith". The other side of the beach leads to Thailand.This is one of the best beach holidays which can be visited.

Ross & Smith Island


*Next will be Alfred caves which is our
23rd destination. (Need to trek for about 1 hour)
*Diglipur is also famous for Turtle nesting and hatching which is the 24th destination.

 
Turtle Nesting

  Day 8:

*Wake up early and leave Diglipur around 4.30 AM so that we can reach Port Blair in the afternoon.
*Head to shopping in a famous govt shop called as
Sagarika emporium where we will find shells, pearls, show pieces, cloths etc etc which is our 25th destination.
*Get back to the room and relax.

 

 Day 9:

*Let's travel to a beach called as Chidiya Tapu (Munda/Pahar) which is around 20 Kms from Port Blair - 26th destination.


Chidiyatapu Beach (Munda Pahar)


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Next will be the Chidiya Tapu biological park - 27th destination.

Biological Park

Day 10:

*Let's travel to Chattam Sawmill which is one of the Asia's biggest saw mill - 28th destination.

Chatham Saw Mill


*Next lets head towards Wandoor beach and move to Jolly boy Island which is our
29th destination.

Wandoor Beach


*Let's get back to Wandoor beach for the beautiful sunset which is our 30th destination.

Note: If you are on a beach holidays then do visit Andaman & Nicobar island.