Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal: Day 8 & 9

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Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal: Day 6 & 7

Day #8 at Andaman: 14 March 2017

Our 8th day started with the visit at the Bharatpur beach. This beach was crowded with tourists and shops. Most of us including me were tired and thought to rest at the small huts made at the beach. Some of us went to ride the sea scooters. Eventually, we got some nice pictures to click.

Bharatpur beach

On our chart, there was another beach in the Neil island and that was the Sitapur beach. It is not that beautiful as compared to the other beaches previously mentioned. It is a small beach where we saw another sunset. Next, we took our cruise at the Neil island jetty to return to Port Blair.

Day #9 at Andaman: 15 March 2017

On the 9th day, we went to Mt. Harriet National Park. The fascinating fact is that the picture of the back side of Rupee 20 note is taken from Mount Harriet National Park. Earlier, this was a reserve forest and later it was converted into the national park. There were some high-rise huts from where we got to see a beautiful view of different islands.

Then some of us took rest by sitting on the wooden chairs and some of us trekked towards Kalapathar which was at a 2-km distance. Kalapathar was the place where prisoners used to be pushed down the ravine to their death.

On the same day afternoon, we visited Mundapahar beach. This beach is full mostly with rocks. It is not so significant beach and we stayed there for a very small time. The attraction for that day was the sunset at Chidiya Tapu beach. The road passes through forest and small hills up to the Chidiya tapu. We saw the remains of trees uprooted during Tsunami in 2004. The sunset here soothed my soul and gave me enormous peace.

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