Andaman And Nicobar Islands Trip Bytes

• The Sunrise Time there was 5:30 am and Sunset Time was 5:30 pm.
• There on the islands, there was also shortage of facilities such as electricity, gas cylinder etc.
• There milk is rarely found and if found, it would be long duration pack.
• There, nothing much is made in industries, mostly goods come in ship from Chennai.
• There are loads of coconut trees, so to fill stomach, drinking coconut can be done.
• Mostly, places of sightseeing are beaches.
• Though different from mainland, they are called a part of India.
• There is no regional language over there (except some tribal). People over there mainly speak Hindi, Tamil, Bengali etc.
• The total population (approximately) is 380500
• As a tourist, you must carry come pills that overcome vomiting sensation as you may feel it as there many times, travelling is done by boats and ships.

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 8

Howrah Bridge

            So........... after our 6 day long trip, we were now about to depart to Veer Savarkar Airport Port Blair to go to Kolkata, then to Mumbai and finally to Ahmedabad. After our flight to Kolkata, as there was a large gap gap for connecting flight, we went to see the Howrah Bridge over the river Hugli. There was a bus which took us from airport to Howrah station. After seeing the Howrah bridge, we returned back to airport, and then flew back to Mumbai.
         

Howrah station

            In Mumbai, we went to Mumbai Central Railway Station and then by overnight train to Ahmedabad in early morning.

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 7

lime stone cave

       The last day of my trip and sight seeing was now. After such a nice and enjoyable trip, now was the last day there. We were going to baratang Island to the north of Port Blair Island. We had to travel through an tribal area. For passing through this tribal area, there was a system to make a convoy ( a group of many vehicles preceded and succeeded by police vehicles) and then go. The convoy was held at some definite times. After passing through the convoy, we reach the place, from where we had to go to the next island by a ship. The next island was just so close, we can even see activities going on there from here. From the connecting island, we were taken by a motorboat to another island, where there was a limestone cave. After a long walk of about one and a half kilometers, we reached the limestone cave. The cave was a magnificent one,as name goes, made of limestone. These cave in to its interior is completely dark, and so we were shown this with the help of a torch. This place was worth seeing. After this place, the next one was a mud volcano. This is a formal volcano, but not lava, mud volcano. This was the last spot of our tour. From there, we quickly returned to the place near the convoy. There, we got the ship and just as we reached there, the last vehicle of the convoy was sent  and we were left!. The next convoy was 2 hours later. So, we spent 2 hours, and then by convoy and normal route, finally, we reached Port Blair. After the dinner, we slept, and thus our last day of trip ended.



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mud volcano

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 6

After a bit of relax day concerned to sight seeing, our next day was a bit hectic one as we had to visit 3 islands! Our tour was to 3 islands located nearby. To start with, the first island was a Ross Island, an island which had no human residence, but just a tourist spot and may be to get tender coconuts. This island has a hilly surface in the middle of it. It has almost 1500 coconut trees! The island had a lake, a cemetery and lots of coconuts. The next spot was a North-bay Island. This island had nothing more to see in it than its oceanic life-corals and fishes. There was a spot to scuba dive and see all the corals and fishes. For that, a tourist guide would come with us to explain as well as protect us. But I have a hydrophobia and never would I do it, so for us it was just a sit in the lap of nature, but for adventurers, it was the best place. The third and the last island of the day was the Viper Island, which also had nothing at all except gallows. Here, many of our freedom fighters were hanged to death.

                       Lastly, we returned back to Port Blair and the day ended.

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 5

Me at the science city

After the trip of 2 days in 2 islands, once again we returned back to Port Blair. There, the sight seeing started at 3 in the afternoon with a science city, one of the spots I always love to go. This science city was opposite a beautiful beach. There was a 3-d show in the science city which I saw. The science city attracted me much and so I visited each and every model of it. After the science city, the next spot was the beach on the other side of the road. It was a nice beach with as usual rich blue color. But as we had passed through a couple of couple of beaches, we were not at all interested in getting wet even the least. But, the fortune was a bit different then we thought. There, we met rainfall-not quite much than a passing shower, but quite enough for making us to leave the beach and get back to our car. After that spot, we went to a shop of the local items, just corals and different creativity with them. Thus our day ended with a usual dinner and then sleep.

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 4

         After the ending of the one and only night spent by us at the Havelock Island, the next morning we departed from Havelock island to Neil Island-another small Island of the group of islands again by a cruise. Reaching there the first thing-as usual was to check-in into the hotel. After that, we went to a "Bharatnagar" beach-not quite with the plan to get wet as it had just been done yesterday. The special thing there was the coral and fish viewing. There were 3 different types of activities done there viz. Scuba diving, glass bottom boat and snorkeling. We had done one activity-the glass bottom boat. It was such that we had to step in a boat that was with the bottom made of glass. That boat would take us to far off in the ocean-I mean just 250 to 500 meters, but that's quite enough for being drowned. When we were reached at the spot, I was being a little frightened as the ocean was full of current and even none of us knew to swim! But, if you throw away the fear and look down to through the glass, it is a wonderful experience. There, we could see fishes, corals, and even 40-50 feet deep bottom of the ocean as the water was very clean and pure-though salty. We saw this corals and fishes for 10-15 minutes and then headed towards the coast. There was nothing much to see there except this. But we still had a plenty of time and so we walked along the coast. There we found many beautiful corals and shells out there. I also collected a few, but while departing I saw a notice saying that it is denied to collect any type of corals and shells, so I had to leave it. The next spot was another beach where we had to walk along a very difficult tracking type of road leading to a natural bridge.

        Our third and last spot for the day was another beach but for sunset seeing. There we saw the sun setting and then returned back to our hotel.

Andaman and Nicobar Trip Part 3

         Last day, I was surprised a lot as the sun set took place just at half past five and by 7, it was completly dark. It was so because these islands are located in eastern side of our main India. On the third day of our trip, we had to depart from port Blair and go to another island- Havelock Island. The journey was to be made by a medium sized cruise. This cruise took about 2 hours to reach to Havelock. There our hotel was a type of a beach resort. There was nothing much to see in this island, the only main thing to see was a radhanagar beach.


                               


We departed for this beach at about eleven o'clock. The beach was not much crowded-I mean comfortably crowded and the water of the beach was very clean. It was crystal clear and had a much visibility and was also rich blue in color.  It was a very different kind of beach then the ones I had seen earlier. I had a bath in the beach and had a lots of fun out there. That day after visiting the beach, we straight away went back to our resort.

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 2

                 After reaching there the first thing we did was to check-in our hotel in Port Blair. Then after some adequate rest and breakfast  we went for sight seeing there. The first place we went to see was a saw mill and a museum in the same campus. There was also a bomb pit where a bomb was dropped by Britisher. The next spot was a Naval-Marine Museum Where various marine related things were there as the name goes. There were some fantastic fishes and other sea creatures as well as corals too. The next spot was a Anthropological museum related to the various tribes of that area. And then till it was afternoon we reached the cellular jail and roamed around inside it. The jail was a massively big structure and it had about 698 cells to capture the jailers. At that time, it was just a small island and it was built thinking that the Indian leaders captured there would not be able to escape from that small island. There we saw a light and sound show in the cellular jail dealing about the freedom fighters of India who were jailed there and the cruelty of the Britishers. All the incidents in the show were shown to be witnessed by the sun and a tree present there (pics are posted). The show was about of half-an hour. After that show, we went to dinner and then back to the hotel.    (for more pictures, go below)

the tree who witnessed the scenes

the sun who witnessed the scenes

model of the jail

model of the jail

model of the jail

Andaman And Nicobar Trip Part 1

                                      Diwali vacations! The time to burst crackers, to meet relatives, to go on a tour and lots more fun! I got my Diwali vacation on 31 of October. As soon as I got it, we went to Bhavnagar to celebrate Diwali. There, I burst crackers and had a lot of fun. On 6^th of November, as we had planned departed for our tour to Andaman and Nicobar Islands at early morning 4:45. By auto rickshaw, we reached the kalupur railway station, Ahmadabad and we had a double Decker train to Mumbai timed at 6.

The train had already been ready on the platform and so we went inside it. It reached at Mumbai at about 1. There, by taxi, we went to the airport via the worli sea link-a bridge which has been constructed to overcome or reduce the traffic problem of Mumbai. 

 

                                      At the airport after checking in to terminal 1 there was lots of time to pass as our flight was at about 9. At 6, the security check that checks the luggage and the pockets etc and lets to go further towards the gate where the flight would be boarded from. That place was very marvelous and royal. It seemed as if it was a shopping mall. So clean, and glorious! There we waited for two to 3 hours and the boarded our flight. The normal way of boarding is either to go through a long box like structure that direct leads to flight gate, or by a bus that takes us to the gate of the plane. Here, we had to pass the box like structure and directly, we are inside the flight with air hostess welcoming us with a typical “Namashkaar” or “Welcome”. Then we entered our Air India flight. It was just as a luxurious A/C bus and nothing more.

      
                   After About two to two and half hours it landed on Kolkata at Late night. We were in the arrival portion and had to go to the departure section. There, the Kolkata airport at night looked gorgeous, but too chilled due to air condition.

Our next flight was early morn 5:30. And so to pass the time as well as quench the sleep, I slept there till 4:30. Then our flight arrived and boarding started. That flight Landed at 8 and at 8:30, we were out of Airport.