Port Blair
– Places to visit in Port Blair –
Corbyn’s Cove Beach – the coconut-palm fringed beach, six kilometers away from Port Blair town is ideal for swimming and sun-basking. This beach is best known for the breath taking view of Sunrise. This beautiful beach becomes amazing when Sunrise in the eastern sky and spread its golden aura all around. Historical remains like Japanese Bunkers can be seen on the way to this beach. The Snake Island situated just across the beach which is popular for scuba diving. Facilities like hotel, restaurant, bar, changing room, adventure water-sports are available here.
The Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani (Hindi for black waters), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The prison was used by the British for the express purpose of exiling political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable independence activists, including Batukeshwar Dutt, Yogendra Shukla, and Vinayak Savarkar were imprisoned here during the struggle for India’s independence. Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument. During the Light and Sound show, various artists enact the life of prisoners when Cellular Jail was operational.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, formerly known as Ross Island, is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The island is situated 3 km (2 mi) east from central Port Blair. The historic ruins are a tourist attraction the Island has thick forests. To any onlooker it may give the impression that it has no “life” — in the sense that there is no human habitation. Spotted Deer and peacocks are mostly found in the island and the island is full of palm and coconut trees.
North Bay Island – Trip to the North Bay Island begins from the Andaman Water Sports Complex or Junglighat Jetty. The boats, which start from the Andaman Water Sports complex/ Junglighat Jetty The boat reaches North Bay Island where you get down on the island and can avail any water activity that you are interested such has Dolphin Glass boat ride and Coral Safari Semi Submarine are also operational various scuba shops offering scuba diving and snorkeling sea walk.
Jolly Buoy is a part of the Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park. It is one of the two islands open for tourists along with Red Skin Island. The island is famous for its amazing marine life and Snorkeling. The Great Barrier Reef was always on the travel bucket list. But here in Andaman’s, they say Jolly Buoy is the best place in India to witness a plethora of corals. The island is one of the fifteen islands forming the Mahatma Gandhi Marine National park, introduced with the purpose to educate citizens about marine life and its conservation. Out of the fifteen islands, only two are open for tourists. Red Skin Island and Jolly Buoy, each of which is open for 6 months.
Chidiyatapu and Mundaphada – Andaman’s Bird Island or Chidiyatapu is a carpet of rich mangrove forests that host numerous species of birds. This eco-park, at the southernmost tip of the South Andaman Island, is situated at a distance of 28 km from Port Blair, the capital of the archipelago. Apart from being a birdwatching paradise, this place is also popular for its picnic spots, trekking trails and glorious sunset views. The biological park at Chidiyatapu, with its rich and diverse flora and fauna, is also a must-visit. One of the main attractions of Chidiyatapu is its Sunset Point. From here, you can get glorious views of the setting sun as it dips into the stretching Bay of Bengal.
Anthropological Museum
The Anthropological museum in Port Blair was started in the year 1975-76. This small museum offers a profound and informative portrait of island’s local community of tribes like Jarawas, Sentinelese, Great Andamanese and the Onges. These tribes are considered as one of the oldest in the world. The museum is showcasing wide collection of tools and weapons used by Andaman tribes. An ancient Jarawa chest guard, a skull discovered from the Sentinelese, the Shamanic sculptures created by the Nicobarese, the boats of different shapes and sizes, the coconut or palm tree leaves baskets, clothes of Andamanese are the popular attractions in the museum. The museum also encloses many photographs of different tribes and aborigines of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. A great treasure of Island history, a well maintained library, functions on the top of the museum. Many films depicting the life and culture of the Andamans are also preserved here. The Museum authorities arrange few documentary and film shows for the visitors of the museum.
Samudrika Naval Marine Museum
The museum situated near the Andaman Teal House at Port Blair in India, designed to create awareness on various aspects of oceanic environment. [2] The museum is run by the Indian Navy.[3] This museum aims to generate awareness about the environment in the ocean and the marine life. The museum has five sections presenting history of Andaman Islands, Geographical information, people of Andaman, Archaeology and Marine life.
Chatham Saw Mill
Chatham Saw Mill is one of the Asia’s largest and oldest Saw Mill and it is also known as Government saw Mill There is a Souvenir Shop inside the Chatham Saw Mill .There is a also a Forests Museum inside the compound of the Chatham Saw Mill. Japanese bunker behind the saw mill. A Bomb Pit created by bomb dropped during world war 2 in year 1942.The Chatham Island houses the Government Saw Mill referred to as Chatham Saw Mill. It was established in 1883 with the imported machines with the primary objective to meet local requirement of sawn timber. It finds a place among the big and famous sawmills in Asia with an installed capacity of sawing 20,000 logs annually. The entire production of sawn timber in the mill is sold under the coverage of an administered price mechanism and is consumed locally. The mill has converted huge quantity of timber for catering to the requirements of New York, London and various other cities in the colonial period. The glorious crimson wall paneling of the Buckingham palace might surely be reminding her majesty, the Queen of England of Andaman Padauk. All type timber trees of the Islands like padauk wood ( native to Andaman), Pyinma, Gurjan or Satin wood are used as raw material in the Chatham Mill. It caters the need of local wood based industrial /furniture units in Andaman.
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