Port Blair, India Travel Blogs

Andaman Islands
Apr 9, 2006 (8 photos)

... its worth listening to the locals, not always ! ) Our first evening here was spent looking around town (getting lost as usual). Port Blair is larger than we had expected, and spreads in all directions from a valley leading down to the port. This is ...

Port Blair, Porte d'entree des Andaman
May 10, 2009 (11 photos)

... sursaut a 1h30 pour prendre le taxi, enfin une Ambassadore mytique, nous filons vers Chennai pour prendre l'avion qui nous emmene vers Port Blair, aux iles Andaman, dans le Golfe du Bengale. 1er fou rire a l'arrivee car nous sommes les seuls blancs, et ...

Part 2: Ross Island, Chiriyatapu and the return
May 23, 2008 (9 photos)

... and give them pride of place on your mantelpiece.   Our next destination, Chiryatapu, is a 26 kms drive out of Port Blair, through lush green countryside. As we pass a desolate stretch of sand on our left, John points to a cluster of buildings up ...

Andamanerne
Feb 19, 2008

... km oest fra Kolkata. Oegruppen bestaar af 552 oer hvoraf kun 35 er beboede. Befolkningen er ............ Ved ankomsten til Port Blair kunne vi endelig traekke vejret igen uden at skulle vride lungerne for benzinos efterfoelgende. Efter en lille gaatur i ...

Part-1:Mt.Harriet, Chatham Saw Mill, Cellular Jail
May 23, 2008 (9 photos)

... the summit, it can also be reached in a 55km drive from Port Blair. One of the more underused accommodation options by visitors to Port Blair is the Forest Guest House and the huts that take you far from the bustle of the capital town below - not to talk ...

Tropical ulcers and coconut rum
Nov 27, 2000

... . A oft-repeated complaint about the tribals is that 'they are all lazy and just sit around watching television all day'. In Port Blair we spent a couple of days whizzing around the streets in three-wheelers, savouring the availability of cold drinks and ...

Andaman Islands, bad karma and George Bush
Nov 15, 2000

... how it would have looked in its heyday. The British left their mark on the Andamans in their naming of each place. Port Blair, Havelock Island, English Island, Rutland Island and Jolly Buoy Island are some of the names left behind. I went diving off ...

Fisketur
Mar 6, 2008 (11 photos)

Tilbage i Port Blair. Planen var primaert at tage til en strand hvorfra det skulle vaere muligt at se skilpadder laegge aeg. Desvaerre fandt vi ud af at stranden var blevet oedelagt af tsunamien. Vi bokkede derfor en fisketur hos en franskmand som havde ...

Baratang, limestone caves and mud volcano
May 20, 2008 (6 photos)

... in front having taunted her. So much for civilised folk and their cultured behaviour!   The rest of the journey back to Port Blair is without event. We drive into town at about 8pm, passing the airport on the way, eventually alighting at the Gandhi ...

Still here!
Apr 13, 2006

... ferral than sleeping rough in India eh! It took me 2 days to get to somewhere with internet and phone lines, so now in Port Blair capital city of the Andaman islands and the first time ive been near so called civilisation for quite a while. I've spent ...

Port Blair, Andamin Islands, India
Mar 27, 2009 (12 photos)

... part of the country of India. We have crossed the Bay of Bengal to the Andaman Islands. Today we were in Port Blair which is a Union Territory of India. This was the first stop by a Princess Ship at the islands as it is infrequently used as a cruise ship ...

Havelock Island and the Radhanagar Beach
May 21, 2008 (6 photos)

... unlucky in that we have missed out on breakfast at the resort's restaurant. Havelock, given its remoteness, is heavily dependent on Port Blair for its supplies. That means there is no real abundance of provisions and other items of daily use. What there is ...

andaman
May 12, 2009 (2 photos)

auf den andamanen, das 2. mal...und wieder bin ich zu spaet um auf einem segelboot trampen zu koennen...das letzte nach indonesien lief am tag als ich ankam aus. Mit aurelie is so gut wie aus, also werd ich demnaechst alleine weiterreisen. Nehmt euch ...

The first day in the Andamans
May 19, 2008 (8 photos)

... , as a large, green, coconut fringed expanse finally seems to rise up from the sea, we know we are descending on Port Blair. A welcome respite from the descents on to struggling, sprawling metropolises, this is like trying to find an asphalt strip in a sea ...

Jun 9, 2009 (56 photos)

Little Andaman - The Next Hot Spot
Aug 19, 2008 (3 photos)

... nature LOCATION 120 kms south to Port Blair- the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ACCESS Boats services connecting Port Blair and Hut Bay (the entry point of Little Andaman Island) are available twice/thrice a week. The journey ...

NELSON MANDELA - THE ANDAMAN CONNECTION
Aug 24, 2008 (2 photos)

... the Andaman & Nicobar Islands?   At the outset, it may appear preposterous. Mandela never came to the Islands. India was already a free country when he started the fight against the apartheid regime of South Africa. However, on second thought, ...

port blair
Mar 1, 2008

this was my first visit...

Andaman Islands
Feb 21, 2008 (15 photos)

What can I say, the Andamans is heavenly. The island we stayed on is called Havelock and where most of the scuba diving is. The island is really small and covered with trees and forest. The beaches are beautiful and the water crystal clear. The weather ...

South Andaman
Dec 22, 2008 (5 photos)

... Cove and our next hotel, Peerless Resort.  I have to admit that my heart ruled my head in choosing this hotel.  Port Blair has only one beach and Peerless is the only hotel actually on this beach.  There are many other beaches around the ...

Andaman & Nicobar Island
May 19, 2008

ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLAND

Transit duer Port Blair
Mar 9, 2007

Transit

A pretty neat holiday
Jun 27, 2009 (21 photos)

... . The aquarium and Elephanta beach are the best places to snorkel.lots of corels,lots of fish,even jellyfish. Back to Port Blar dint take the ramanunjam this time. Day5 Museums and shopping There are anthropological museums.These islands have a lot of ...

off to a good start
Jan 25, 2008

Finally i feel like writing again.   yes, yes, must admit, for a while there i was missing the inspiration a little, as things didn't quite pan out the way I had hoped.  But how someone so aptly put it one day, 'it is the rocks that lie in ...

Rajski Andamani
Sep 27, 2008

... ce jutri let bo, izgubiva samo en dan nakupovanja v New Delhiju, v zameno pa dobiva preostanek popoldneva na Andamanih, v mestu Port Blair, kjer danes prov fletno scije. Sicer pa danes praznujeva Mojcin rojstni dan, a bolj klavrno. Poleg tezav z ...

Paradise at Last
Apr 2, 2006 (12 photos)

Finally arrived at the capital shanty town of Port Blair, home to the famous Cellular Jail, built by us Brits to lock up all those heroic Indian freedom fighters who fought for nothing other than the rights to their own country! Funny thing is the jail is ...

Party time in Andaman Islands
Nov 9, 2007

... meet. We were lucky to meet a great group and the days just flew by in an instant. We flew from Chennai and arrived in Port Blair at 6. we had to wait around and took the ferry(2 hours) to Havelock Island that day. We stayed in the lonely planets ...

port blair
May 6, 2003

06.05.2003 Pt. Blair, Andaman Islands... bin hier grade mal kurz aus dem kraken, aeh krankenhaus abgehaun..gibt nachher warscheinlich aerger :) hatte hepatitis...werde deswegen jetzt net sooooviel schreiben... am besten ich grabsch mir mein privates ...