Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India

Port Blair is the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal. It is about 3 hours flight from mainland India.
As I previously posted, it is an unplanned stop. We were supposed to stay in Yangon for three days, but due to the unstable situation, we skipped it and it was substituted with other stops. One of them is Port Blair.
We arrived at 7:00am. By 8:30am we met with our friends Younga and David and decided to go together.
We took shuttle from the port to the center of the city and then hire two Tuk-Turks to the main attraction: the Cellular Jail, UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Cellular Jail, was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prison was used by the colonial government of India for the purpose of exiling criminals and political prisoners. Many notable independence activists were jailed there.

Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument.
After touring the prison, we hired two mor Tuk-Tuks for the rest of the day and went to Corbyn’s Cove| hotel. We were told that it is the best hotel on the island and the only one with the beach.
The hotel looked like a 2 star hotel, the beach was no very good and the waves were too high.
Since it was extremely hot and humid, we spent some time in the hotel’s cool restaurant.
The next stop was interested Anthropological museum. It was established in 1975.
The museum is describing local community tribes.
There are displays that describing the houses of the tribes, ornaments, utensils and even musical instruments.
No photo pictures allowed.

By now the heat was getting to be unbearable, so we decided to visit one more museum: Marine Museum.
It is a small museum with displays of marine life endemic to the island and found in the Indo-Pacific ocean and the Bay of Bengal.

After visiting the last museum we went straight to the ship. The heat was the worst we ever experienced.Read more