If there was a day, that we
wouldn’t forget for heaven sake, it would be 17th Feb. This was the
day when we piled our luggages towards the First honeymoon (?) voyage to the
most exciting and Romantic Andaman & Nicobars Island. Our flight’s
scheduled Departure time was by morning 05:30 –we hired a taxi from nanganallur
and reached the Meenambakkam airport. That was my debut trip in flight as well.
With tons of joy, I entered the airport a couple of hours. My husband was explaining
me about the formalities. We got the boarding pass and opted a window seat. The
baggage Check-in was followed by Security check-in. My husband’s security check
got completed earlier than mines and to jointly get into the bus that takes us
to plane. However he was forced to get into the bus by the impatient Security
head leaving me in panic. I couldn’t imagine the consequences and was fear
driven. The old lady standing before me was having lots of keys and purses.
Strangled by suspicion, the security were
checking her for a long time, that
made me bite my nails without the need to do so. With an umpteen delay, I got
into bus and met him near the plane that had a surging smile. When I saw my
husband, I got relaxed until then I was like a child seeking for mom. At last
we both got in to the flight. Ever since child hood, I was dreaming for a flight
journey. Through the journey, I was always peeping out while flying. In the
flight they gave us instructions on how to wear a jacket during taxiing. WOW!
That was an unforgettable moment. In the flight, they gave breakfast. I was
hungry by the time when it was served and hence I ate Sumptuous. We reached
port blair in just 2 hours.
No sooner we stepped
into port blair airport, we took a so called “Selfie“ with the plane. A
security in the airport warned not to take any more. Lately, I realized that we
were in a stringent union territory. And that we had already booked a taxi from
port blair to markuzz ferry, driver Ram took us to the ferry spot. On the way, we had to acknowledge
that the road was clean and narrow. Or is that, the condition looked too good (only)
at the early morning. Ram gave us some suggestion for site seeing in Havelock,
for which we were heading to. We took a ferry bus to reach ferry terminus and
were first to the spot as well. I was startled to see a lady smoking with her
husband in the ferry bus. Within few minutes we reached the ferry spot to check
in our luggage, took few snaps and were peeping the couples made for (smoking)
each other. Later, we got into the ferry, with a first class A/C after seeing
second class we thought we should have booked second class itself because the
view was really good in the second class compared to the first class. First
class window was very small impacting our scenic views. Hence those who read
this blog, ensure you book a second class for the ferry to Havelock. With half
satisfaction we sat in our place to see a cute baby (boy) around 1 to 2 years. His
facial expression was too good that our camera’s 1/2000 shutter speed setting
seemed less efficient. My husband is an awesome photographer, that he captures
and sends to the respective people. Someone gossiped that the picture in our
rupee note is an exact replica of coconut grooves that we watching on the way to
Havelock.
It took couple of hours to reach Havelock. As
usual, we were getting the gospels from the workers for taking photos with our
tripod, when every other co-passenger left the ferry terminus. There we took
one auto to our resort “GOLD STAR”, which had a private shallow beach beside. We
heard about the word “pristine”. For the first time, we realized Pristine. This
made us think as why merina beaches are not pristine. My husband clarified that
higher the depth, violet color in “VIBGYOR“ alone intrudes the water for its
lengthier wavelength. Hence water in merina looks violet bluish while that in
Andaman is greenish. After refreshing we came to eat in the resort run mess. It
was a total mess for waiting over an hour. By evening we came outside by walk to
buy a rental scooter and to purchase some cloths. While returning home, we had
our dinner and came to resort.
Next day by morning, 5 O clock we
got up and went to Radha nagar beach in a scooty. During our travel we enjoyed
a lot and expressed it by shouting and laughing. We also stopped every now and
then in roads and took some snaps in beautiful places. Had if we hired a taxi,
our privacy and freedom would have been buried. Hence strongly suggest hiring a
bike. The roads were very narrow and none were there during our travel in the
morning. We had seen the mist floating above the plants, needless to say they
were lucrative. It took nearly one and a half an hour to reach radha nagar
beach. We saw the beautiful sunrise in the early morning. We felt happy to see
the sunrise and the water was shining like a silver string. There is no doubt
as why this is beckoned as the best beach in asia. This is shallow to an extent
like any other beach. We strolled the beach multiple times, went deeper into
seas. Climbed the trees, sat around the branches and watched foreigners
enjoying their stint. My husband lost half sovereign golden ring as an ill luck
which was truly disappointing. That was purchased by my parents and I was even
more anger. This anger got converted into what I would say as our first fight.
I forced my husband to provide the scooty. I rode very fast and at one juncture
and I couldn’t manage the balance and we both fell down .Blood was bleeding in
my leg some people helped me with some water to wash the leg. My husband put
some sand on the wound to prevent it from becoming septic. We went to off-course
a small hospital in Havelock, That day night we spent our time in the private beach.
That is the heavenly place meant for all peaceful lovers and lovely couples .
Next day, we reached
kalapanthar beach. One shouldn’t miss this place as the road path to this
resembles like the one to Kerala. Unlike Radha Nagar, this is not crowded and
meant for couples. Quickly we moved to Havelock harbor to swing into water
games for the most awaited Elephant beach. Wow- whitish sand. Do not miss this
beach. My husband was not letting me to scuba diving with the fact that I knew
no swimming. I have to make myself blessed with snorkeling in pristine water. Snorkeling
is walking in water with a depth of < 8 feet guided by the guide. You just
need the snorkeling tube that makes your breathing easy with your mouth. You
need not know swimming. However in Scooba Diving, you will get into a depth of
at least 40 feet. You need to carry those oxygen cylinders. If You are on your
honey moon trip, you would be slightly worried to get into the middle of sea,
which is like consuming a heavy meal . So better choose Snorkeling, a mini
meal. We also went for a glass bottom ride to have a look at the sea creatures.
This is an average ride. They also had banana rides, Jet skying. Due to huge cost we had to
refrain from them. We had to leave Elephant beach with a heavy heart and went
to Radha Nagar beach for seeing sunset. The water turns orange and yellowish
color and is one of the highly watched
events like Thiruvannamalai deepam festival. At last we reached the resort.. Third day we have to leave Havelock, we were
worried that we should have for 2 more days here itself. Here we had one
problem. We planned to take oil bath and we were preparing for applying
oil by that time resort manager came and
asked us to vacate .we were shocked and
we told to the manager that we would leave by 12 noon . The manager said
there weren’t any rooms. We thought that was not possible because we should
catch the ferry for portblair by noon. So we rushed and came from the resort
after facing so many problems. Then we had no place to stay because our ferry departure
time is 11.30 we were just having 2 hrs.
We had to return the scooter with a
penalty of Rs 2000 penalty. We paid some prepondment charges and got the ferry
before 11.30.That day was terrible to us.
We reached portblair and went
to hotel “Hill Top”. We took rest on that day had oil bath. Then on next day we
went to jolly bay. There were so much hype about this place but after going
there we realized that it was not worth the money. Especially having visited Havelock,
this was totally disappointing.
Next day we went to
Mahatma Gandhi national park. It was bit pleasant, the fact being it was sea
facing. It has swings and tree hut views that are eye catchy. We moved to
cellular jail that was built by British. The best part of this was again the
sea view. Many of the prisoners , who tried escaping died few meters when
traversing in sea. We were not happy with the cost of hotel hilltop and we had
to shift one another with the help of tamil friend.
Next day we took ferry and went
to North bay island. This is little cheaper when compared to Elephant beach.It
is advisable to do jet skying, sofa
ride. Snorkelling could be avoided as water is bit dirty. We met a character
“maza nahi “ who wanted much more
adventure with her soft husband. The banana and sofa rides, they drop u in
water and my husband was roaring like a wounded lion, when dropped after the
ride. You could plan to buy some Andaman takeaways here. Then we reached Ross
island, in that place lots of coconut tree and deers. Nothing much to do in
this island. I was for all tears when a ship got submerged here in 2014 , due
to overcrowd.
Next day we went to
chidiyathur beach that was not so bad. We faced one problem in that place , we
didn’t get bus in the evening. We almost lost hopes. There were only 2 couples
including us. We were also scared to go by autos who could deceive us with
added cost. By 6.30, we got the last bus and came to the hotel.
Finally the next day morning
,we had flight from portblair to Chennai.Our budget went to Rs 77000 for both
of us including hotels, food, flight journeys and penalties. More importantly
we had loads of fun.
Watch the link for more photos
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