Hei folks , am back with my photo blog of my recent trip to the stunning Andaman's. In this blog I will try to take you through the 7 night 8 day trip to the Andaman , sharing with you a few photographs I clicked on my trip. So here we go , hope you are with me.
I and my wife decided to go to the Andaman's in the month of December and I planned my vacation a good 2 months before the actual journey. As I was travelling with my wife I decided to take a package trip and for this I approached Travel 4 seasons , my package included 2 days in Havelock, 1 day at the Neil island , 3 days in Port Blair including a day journey to Baratang Island. My travel date was December 6th and I took the Air Asia flight from Bangalore to Chennai , Spice Jet from Chennai to Port Blair. I flew from Bangalore to Chennai on the 6th morning. Chennai to Port Blair is a 2 hour flight and we reached the Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair at around 12pm.
As I had booked a packaged tour a driver was waiting for us at the airport and he soon took us to our hotel located at the heart of Port Blair City . Hotel Aparupa was a decent hotel with basic amenities though I thought the space was little cramped, they made it up with their excellent service. We were told by our driver that he would come back to the hotel @ 4 PM to drive us to the nearest beach and the much anticipated light show at the Andaman Central Jail. We rested for a file after a good lunch and sharp @ 4 the car was ready to pick us up and he took us to the beautiful Corbyn's Cove Beach we spent a good 1 hour there at the beach clicking a few photographs.
Sharp at 5 we left to Cellular Jail for the Sound and Light show , frankly speaking the light show was disappointing , though it was heart wrenching to know the sacrifice our freedom fighters did and proud to be associated with such a proud history , the light show itself could have been better. After the light show we went back to our hotel and we were instructed to be ready by 8 AM the next day , we were off to the stunning Havelock which is a 2 hour cruise from Portblair , we took the Mak cruise which was scheduled at 9AM in the morning , it was a pity interesting ride but as per the rules we were not allowed to venture into the dock area which would have made the ride more beautiful.
We reached Havelock by around 11.30AM and checked into our beach resort The Holiday Inn on the Vijaynagar Beach by around 12PM. Its a decent resort with good clean rooms and luckily by room was just 50mts walk from the stunning Vijayanagar beach .
Food was decent and staff were very helpful. After a good lunch we left to the much talked Radhanagar Beach , it rained that day and the conditions were overcast that meant we may miss the gorgeous sunset on the beach , as expected the long beach was a stunner , the first thing which came to mind when i saw the beach was "oh i missed the sunset" but me and my wife who also loves photography did a lot of experiments with light and it was fun.The blue hour had set in and everything around looked beautiful.
The next day we left to the elephant beach, elephant beach is another island in the Havelock and its a 20min boat ride from Havelock , elephant beach was just beautiful , I and my wife did snorkeling there at the beach and also played few water games , we get to spend a maximum of 3 hours on the elephant beach and with fossils of loads of fallen trees and crystal clear beach its a beautiful place to visit.
From the elephant beach we came back to our room in Havelock and as we were taking rest something stuck my mind , the weather was beautiful that day and clouds were clear and that meant possibility of photographing the sunset , I quickly booked a two wheeler on rent ( just like Goa we get two wheeler mainly activa for rent on daily basis for 300INR) and we went to Radhanagar beach again , and the beautiful sunset just made our day , we could feel the blessing of nature in that beach that day. We came back happy from the beach and the next day we were to leave to the Neil Island.
The next day i got up early at 4AM4to photograph the sunrise , the shallow shores of Vijayanagar beach I had heard is a great place to see sunrise , but how great?! can only be experienced , can I say breathtaking or magical , sometimes words fail. You getup at 4 in the morning when everybody else is sleeping , get into the water , get dirty and when you get to see the sunrise which you can remember for life and get to photograph it is what make travelling a philosophical experience.
Our cruise to Neil island was at 11AM0, we again took the Mak cruise to Neil island and reached the shores of Neil around 12PM. Neil Island is a very chilled out place , it has three beaches Bharathpur , Seetapur and Lakshmanpur beach , Bharathpur beach has loads of water bound activities and have heard that its one of the favorite destination for divers with loads of live corals in the beach , Seetapur beach is famous for is
sunrise and Lakshmanpur beach for its sunset. Personally I did'n like this place as much as I liked the Havelock , the beaches were not as clean as it was at the Havelock or the elephant beach and it looked like any other beach of southindia.
The next day we took the cruise from Neil Island back to Portblair and checked into hotel aparupa. Post lunch we went for a city tour in Port blair , we went to archaeological museum and again to cellular jail , to see the cell where Veer Savarkar was imprisoned for 10 years was a real humbling experience , and we came back to our room all set for sea walk at the northbay island the next day.
The next day we took a cruise to the Ross island , Ross island was a British colony and we can see a few remains in that island , but Ross was one of the most affected island during the tsunami , and nothing much to say. After spending a good 2 hours at the Ross island we then went to the Northbay island , Northbay Island sports the famous lighthouse which can be seen in the 20rupee note and is a hub for water sport activity in Portblair , Northbay has live corals and also has abundance of aquatic life. We had option of doing seawalk or scuba at Northbay but considering scuba is available in Murudeshwar in Karnataka and in Goa we decided to go for seawalk ,
Seawalk as the name says is walking on the sea bed , you will be given a astronaut type of a helmet and will be guided to the seabed inside a marked boundary , it was very exiting as we witnessed amazing life inside the sea , its a whole new world inside the water , it has to experienced to understand.
The next was our trip to Baratang famous for its mangrove forest and limestone cave , its a 2 hour drive from portbliar via the Jarava Tribe area , inside the Jarava tribe area lone vehicles are not allowed , vehicles inside the area are allowed in a interval of 3 hours to 4 hours once and all the vehicles have to go as a convey. Once we reach the Baratang island we have to take a 20 min speed boat to and trek for 1.5kms to reach the limestone cave , I felt more than the cave the journey was interesting ,
After Baratang we reached our hotel and got ready for our flight for the next day. We took the spice jet from Port blair to Chennei and the Air Asia from Chennai to Bangalore and reached home by 8PM.
So here ends a exiting journey to andaman, long overdue but finally done. Havelock was the best and I felt there was lot more to explore in Baratang and a day spent in Neil could have been used there , nevertheless a journey worth remembering. Hope you liked it. Photos were taken by me using a CANON 600D and I use a CANON 18-135 mm, CANON 10-18 mm ,CANON 50 mm and SIGMA 70-300 mm for my photography.
Until next time , be well and God bless.
Info:
Bangalore to Chennai and Chennai to Bangalore- Air Asia - 3300 INR/Person
Chennai to Port Blair and Port Blair to Chennai - Spice Jet - 15050 INR/Person
Stay and Travel Charges @ Andaman for 7days and 8 Nights - 3500 INR /Person/Day
Contacts :
Travel 4 Seasons : 0-7022028511
I and my wife decided to go to the Andaman's in the month of December and I planned my vacation a good 2 months before the actual journey. As I was travelling with my wife I decided to take a package trip and for this I approached Travel 4 seasons , my package included 2 days in Havelock, 1 day at the Neil island , 3 days in Port Blair including a day journey to Baratang Island. My travel date was December 6th and I took the Air Asia flight from Bangalore to Chennai , Spice Jet from Chennai to Port Blair. I flew from Bangalore to Chennai on the 6th morning. Chennai to Port Blair is a 2 hour flight and we reached the Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair at around 12pm.
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| View of one of the Islands of Andaman's from above |
As I had booked a packaged tour a driver was waiting for us at the airport and he soon took us to our hotel located at the heart of Port Blair City . Hotel Aparupa was a decent hotel with basic amenities though I thought the space was little cramped, they made it up with their excellent service. We were told by our driver that he would come back to the hotel @ 4 PM to drive us to the nearest beach and the much anticipated light show at the Andaman Central Jail. We rested for a file after a good lunch and sharp @ 4 the car was ready to pick us up and he took us to the beautiful Corbyn's Cove Beach we spent a good 1 hour there at the beach clicking a few photographs.
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| Corbyn's Cove Beach , Port Blair |
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| Evening View of the Corbyn's Cove Beach |
Sharp at 5 we left to Cellular Jail for the Sound and Light show , frankly speaking the light show was disappointing , though it was heart wrenching to know the sacrifice our freedom fighters did and proud to be associated with such a proud history , the light show itself could have been better. After the light show we went back to our hotel and we were instructed to be ready by 8 AM the next day , we were off to the stunning Havelock which is a 2 hour cruise from Portblair , we took the Mak cruise which was scheduled at 9AM in the morning , it was a pity interesting ride but as per the rules we were not allowed to venture into the dock area which would have made the ride more beautiful.
We reached Havelock by around 11.30AM and checked into our beach resort The Holiday Inn on the Vijaynagar Beach by around 12PM. Its a decent resort with good clean rooms and luckily by room was just 50mts walk from the stunning Vijayanagar beach .
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| Vijaynagar Beach |
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| A Cloudy Evening at Vijaynagar Beach |
Food was decent and staff were very helpful. After a good lunch we left to the much talked Radhanagar Beach , it rained that day and the conditions were overcast that meant we may miss the gorgeous sunset on the beach , as expected the long beach was a stunner , the first thing which came to mind when i saw the beach was "oh i missed the sunset" but me and my wife who also loves photography did a lot of experiments with light and it was fun.The blue hour had set in and everything around looked beautiful.
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| A Fossil remain in Radhanagar Beach |
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| Radhanagar Beach |
The next day we left to the elephant beach, elephant beach is another island in the Havelock and its a 20min boat ride from Havelock , elephant beach was just beautiful , I and my wife did snorkeling there at the beach and also played few water games , we get to spend a maximum of 3 hours on the elephant beach and with fossils of loads of fallen trees and crystal clear beach its a beautiful place to visit.
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| The Stunning Elephant Beach |
From the elephant beach we came back to our room in Havelock and as we were taking rest something stuck my mind , the weather was beautiful that day and clouds were clear and that meant possibility of photographing the sunset , I quickly booked a two wheeler on rent ( just like Goa we get two wheeler mainly activa for rent on daily basis for 300INR) and we went to Radhanagar beach again , and the beautiful sunset just made our day , we could feel the blessing of nature in that beach that day. We came back happy from the beach and the next day we were to leave to the Neil Island.
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| Sunset @ the Radhanagar Beach |
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| The Leap |
The next day i got up early at 4AM4to photograph the sunrise , the shallow shores of Vijayanagar beach I had heard is a great place to see sunrise , but how great?! can only be experienced , can I say breathtaking or magical , sometimes words fail. You getup at 4 in the morning when everybody else is sleeping , get into the water , get dirty and when you get to see the sunrise which you can remember for life and get to photograph it is what make travelling a philosophical experience.
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| Sunrise Vijaynagar Beach |
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| Sunrise Vijaynagar Beach |
Our cruise to Neil island was at 11AM0, we again took the Mak cruise to Neil island and reached the shores of Neil around 12PM. Neil Island is a very chilled out place , it has three beaches Bharathpur , Seetapur and Lakshmanpur beach , Bharathpur beach has loads of water bound activities and have heard that its one of the favorite destination for divers with loads of live corals in the beach , Seetapur beach is famous for is
sunrise and Lakshmanpur beach for its sunset. Personally I did'n like this place as much as I liked the Havelock , the beaches were not as clean as it was at the Havelock or the elephant beach and it looked like any other beach of southindia.
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| Shores of Seetapur Beach |
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| Romantic Sunset at Lakshmanpur Beach |
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| Mangrove Settling s at Bharathpur Beach |
The next day we took a cruise to the Ross island , Ross island was a British colony and we can see a few remains in that island , but Ross was one of the most affected island during the tsunami , and nothing much to say. After spending a good 2 hours at the Ross island we then went to the Northbay island , Northbay Island sports the famous lighthouse which can be seen in the 20rupee note and is a hub for water sport activity in Portblair , Northbay has live corals and also has abundance of aquatic life. We had option of doing seawalk or scuba at Northbay but considering scuba is available in Murudeshwar in Karnataka and in Goa we decided to go for seawalk ,
Seawalk as the name says is walking on the sea bed , you will be given a astronaut type of a helmet and will be guided to the seabed inside a marked boundary , it was very exiting as we witnessed amazing life inside the sea , its a whole new world inside the water , it has to experienced to understand.
The next was our trip to Baratang famous for its mangrove forest and limestone cave , its a 2 hour drive from portbliar via the Jarava Tribe area , inside the Jarava tribe area lone vehicles are not allowed , vehicles inside the area are allowed in a interval of 3 hours to 4 hours once and all the vehicles have to go as a convey. Once we reach the Baratang island we have to take a 20 min speed boat to and trek for 1.5kms to reach the limestone cave , I felt more than the cave the journey was interesting ,
After Baratang we reached our hotel and got ready for our flight for the next day. We took the spice jet from Port blair to Chennei and the Air Asia from Chennai to Bangalore and reached home by 8PM.
So here ends a exiting journey to andaman, long overdue but finally done. Havelock was the best and I felt there was lot more to explore in Baratang and a day spent in Neil could have been used there , nevertheless a journey worth remembering. Hope you liked it. Photos were taken by me using a CANON 600D and I use a CANON 18-135 mm, CANON 10-18 mm ,CANON 50 mm and SIGMA 70-300 mm for my photography.
Until next time , be well and God bless.
Info:
Bangalore to Chennai and Chennai to Bangalore- Air Asia - 3300 INR/Person
Chennai to Port Blair and Port Blair to Chennai - Spice Jet - 15050 INR/Person
Stay and Travel Charges @ Andaman for 7days and 8 Nights - 3500 INR /Person/Day
Contacts :
Travel 4 Seasons : 0-7022028511
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