01.03.20 : Port Blair -> Mumbai
01/03/20 :
Port Blair -> Chennai -> Mumbai :Got up 5 o’clock, packed and checked out, with packed breakfast to the airport to catch our flight at 7.15am from Port Blair, reaching Chennai airport at 9.40am. We had 2 hours break journey, to catch our next connection to Mumbai at 1225pm, reaching over here at 2.30pm. The full journey went off well and all of us landed in Mumbai and felt bad to part from each other. We all said we would be in touch with each on Whatsapp group.
Andaman Islands are beautiful and ecofriendly. No plastics at all. Only plastics we saw was water bottles. No cold drinks bottle. Everything in tin including soda. Things are expensive because they are all imported from Chennai or Kolkatta. People are simple and helpful. Language over here is Bengali or Tamil, since they are the local people settled here over the years. Hindi is the spoken language around. Rickshaw charges you minimum Rs. 50/- while for local it is Rs.20/-. They say they have business for 4 months with tourists around, otherwise they are cut off due to rains. The locals are taking trouble to educate their children, though only secondary schools are there but for higher education they have to come to Port Blair or the mainland.
Port Blair -> Chennai -> Mumbai :Got up 5 o’clock, packed and checked out, with packed breakfast to the airport to catch our flight at 7.15am from Port Blair, reaching Chennai airport at 9.40am. We had 2 hours break journey, to catch our next connection to Mumbai at 1225pm, reaching over here at 2.30pm. The full journey went off well and all of us landed in Mumbai and felt bad to part from each other. We all said we would be in touch with each on Whatsapp group.
Andaman Islands are beautiful and ecofriendly. No plastics at all. Only plastics we saw was water bottles. No cold drinks bottle. Everything in tin including soda. Things are expensive because they are all imported from Chennai or Kolkatta. People are simple and helpful. Language over here is Bengali or Tamil, since they are the local people settled here over the years. Hindi is the spoken language around. Rickshaw charges you minimum Rs. 50/- while for local it is Rs.20/-. They say they have business for 4 months with tourists around, otherwise they are cut off due to rains. The locals are taking trouble to educate their children, though only secondary schools are there but for higher education they have to come to Port Blair or the mainland.
Original tribes are isolated and located in islands,
which are cut off from modern life. They
are being aided by the Government and protected. No one can go there or interact with them.
The Andaman Islands are home to four 'Negrito' tribes – the Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa and Sentinelese. The Nicobar Islands are home to two 'Mongoloid' tribes – the Shompen and Nicobarese. The 'Negrito' tribes are believed to have arrived in the islands from Africa up to 60,000 years ago. The tribe has suffered most from contact with outsiders: 99% have been wiped out since the British first colonized the islands. Before the tsunami they lived in a government settlement and were dependent on government aid. They have just been moved to the islands' capital, Port Blair, as their village was badly damaged in the tsunami. The tribal people of the Andaman and Nicobar islands are neither 'primitive' nor living in the 'stone age'. Their way of life has not remained unchanged for thousands of years. Like all peoples, their cultures have been continuously evolving. There is no reason why the tribes cannot both survive and thrive, if their lands and resources are secure.
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