Barefoot at Havelock, Jungle Resort Havelock Island

... the Andaman Islands in the month of October, 2009. Though we stayed in Port Blair for a couple of days, our main destination was the beautiful Havelock Islands.<br><br>Havelock Island is truly a beautiful island, and is one amonst the cluster of islands that forms the Andaman Island. Its famous for its pristine beaches, and primarily for the Radha Nagar Beach (Beach No. 7) and was once rated as Asia's best beach by Times Magazine. It sees the best weather from November to April. <br><br ...

... our plane tickets for an early morning flight to Sri Lanka later that night. Since it was getting late and we just packed up our India guidebook, we just wandered around the area near the post office to find a guest house. Despite there being many guesthouses, though they seemed to be targeted towards locals and not foreigners, there were no vacancies. We must have walked around for over an hour, up and down stairs, tired and hungry, only be to told, "full." Just ...

... and banking facilities. We also watched the movie Swingers on telly - bliss! (You're so money, baby!) . . We had secretly harboured a little moron-plan to investigate the possibility of setting up a dive/surf shop on one of the Andamans islands but we've established we prefer a bit more infrastructure and communications. We've learnt our lesson and so the pipe dream dies... as you can see, we're not that bothered.

... somewhere half abandoned. The unit itself was alright, but we ended up moving to Pristine later and our two-story bamboo hut there was a thousand times better and had a beach view for the same money. Not to mention the fact that we were staying at Pristine, by far the coolest place on the planet. Alex, the owner, might be the nicest and funniest person alive, and his resort is a gathering place for a reason. I'm planning to go back to Havelock every winter and I'll be ...

Cheers from India!! I spent my last night in Sri Lanka in Negombo, a beach city just north of Colombo, the capital. The airport is so far north in the city that it is actually easier and cheaper to get to the airport from Negombo. And there really isn't anything thrilling to do in Colombo, even for one day. So I arrived back in Chennai and since I had a 5:50 AM flight to the Andaman Islands the next day I decided to find a hotel near the ...

... from Thailand too. <br><br>Our jeep took the narrow metalled road meandering through small villages and thick plantation of betel nut &amp; coconut trees. We headed to Dolphin Yatri Nivas, a property owned by Andaman Tourism. The resort, 3 Kms. from the jetty and located right next to Vijaynagar beach, scores full marks for its proximity to the sea but needs to catch up miles in food, service, maintenance etc. The deluxe cottages, quite moderately priced, are newly ...

... a great idea. The next day, when it was mentioned again and our friend was a little more sober, he started to back-pedal. Knowing that us camping there was illegal and that, should we be caught, we would simply be deported or fined whereas he might face worse punishment, he tried to put us off the idea. Snakes were mentioned and, when that had no effect, he talked of boatloads of Burmese refugees and police speed boats with guns. But, having planted the seed in our minds the ...