Where time slows down

Emerald Islands (Andamans)

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"Hatching The Perfect Holiday"

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Returned back after a relaxed ........ holiday :)

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Flying first time - Air Deccan

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This holiday would not have been possible if not for Air Deccan

Very reasonably priced :) Clean planes and for snacks we had taken a bag of crunchies and munchies.

We thought of taking the ship one way(costlier than AD) but we were fortunate as a fellow passenger explained how it took 11 days to reach Port Blair after the ship broke down.

Only problem was they had open/free tickets and when we boarded nearly all the window/aisle seats were taken and we were sitting in different rows. After some requests we managed to get together and the kids got window seats :)

The islands looked so beautiful from air. green island with a narrow border of white beach, surrounded by light bluish green shallow waters and then the dark blue deep sea. No wonder they are called Emerald Islands. After a smooth flight we landed at Port Blair, we took a ferry to Havelock island in the afternoon.

We stayed at Dolphin Resorts(Tourism of India) which is on this beautiful beach

The sand is pure white and like powder(different from Marina beach). It was a sheltered beach and so not much of waves and shallow. Water was crystal clear and you could see the fish, corals...

The picture below is Elephant beach which has some of the most beautiful corals in he world. As you can see the vegetation is right upto the sea

We did snorkelling and scuba diving over here and discovered that it is a totally new world under the sea.

I got an underwater disposable camera and the pictures looked OK

Saw a ariety of fish, turtles,corals....

He wanted to give it a try but he will have to wait till he gets older

A beautiful lighthouse on the way back

Then on the way back at Port Blair we visited the cellular jail, where the English had the Indian patriots(Veer Savarkar....) in jail. After seeing the cells, musuems, sound and light show, I wonder whether we give too much importance to Gandhiji... while many people died in prison away from the main land . Out of the seven wings only 3 are remaining.

Place of sound and light show

Prisoners did hard labour getting oil out of coconuts

Cells in a row

where they were executed


It did bring tears to my eyes

We did not have time to see the only active volcano in India and a few more islands... but then we will catch it the next time

Air Deccan brought us back home. Managed to get some seats together :)

Time passed very very slow at Andamans. Sun rose at 4.30 AM nd the day was lonnggggggg as if we had more than 24 hours a day. I got a clock from there so that i could have a longggggggg day in Chennai tooo. But the clock seems to know it is in the fast world and back to a world where there is not enough time.

If you want to enjoy a longgg holiday where u can enjoy every minute do visit Emerald Islands.