* indicates precaution
[ ] includes valuable information
{ } includes personal comments
( ) includes transit information
*Jio doesn’t have a network here. BSNL does.
{Unfortunately, I’d stopped recharging my BSNL to actually try trusting Jio by now. That was quite unwise as an idea.}
*Dairy products aren’t in great demand and restaurants and hotels seldom have any stock of them.
[But there is one dairy industry called Netgo somewhere on these islands. And their milk is diluted with water and chemicals. The residents use powdered milk from the mainland, if at all they must consume.]
*Food pricing at restaurants here begins at triple-digit pricing.
*Buy a good cowboy hat and swimming trunk as they’ll both be handy for the sun and the waters.
Day 1: Port Blair
May 18, Thursday
Rode the jet-ski at the beach.
May 19, Friday
(Cruised on ‘Green Ocean-1’ to Havelock Island. Saw plenty of Flying Fish across the sea.)
May 20, Saturday
Scuba Diving at Blue Planet.
[Breathing is done through the mouth like you drink coconut water and you’re provided a mask with an oxygen supply. Communication isn’t verbal. There are 2-4 standard hand-gestures, and that’s enough for this purpose.]
{My instructor was quite encouraging and I even talked to the finance in charge. We even agreed to meet up again in the evening.}
Motorboat ride to Elephant beach followed by snorkeling.
[It’s a very small beach. And snorkeling is done by floating on the water surface with your face into the water. The mask around your face allows you to take in air from the surface.]
Instead, I visited Radhanagar beach once again. This time with a new friend of mine, from Blue Planet.
{And, when we returned to the Blue Planet, I ran an Access Body Process on him. I met quite a few interesting guys there, and one of them even knew two of my college friends. It’s a small world!}
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Day 4: Neil Island
May 21, Sunday
(Boarded Mak Russ Gold to Neil Island.)
[This island is quite small and it’s just a transitory visit.]
(Booked into Hotel Hawa Bill Nest.)
[The hotel took 1.5 hours to have our lunch ready as people don’t eat at the restaurant very often.]
May 22, Monday
Visited a viewpoint just above Sitapur beach.
May 23, Tuesday
[There were plenty of deer on this island. Nothing much of a major attraction otherwise.]
May 24, Wednesday
(We caught a ship full of passengers, cars, and buses alike to Baratang Forest on another island.)
May 25
Wow….Very nice wish to be there….Thanks to share such attractive pic
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Thank you, Nidhi 🐼🙏
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That was a brilliant trip description.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. 🙂
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Thank you, Gayatri! 🙏💛
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