NH4 Road Trip Part 3

Location: Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

NH4 road drive one road, which connects entire Andaman. It is 340 km from south to north. Chiriyatapu is southern most of Port Blair that’s where NH4 Starts and end at bottom saddle peak, which is Lamiya bay. Out of 340 kms we have covered 311 km. The remaining 29 kms is from port Blair to Chiriyatapu. Every one knows about other national highways except NH4.

First part of this journey you can catch here

Second part of this journey you can catch here

Here I am going to talk about third part of journey starting from Pristine beach resort

Day 4: 28/04/2017

Woke up early around 3 am and started our journey to port Blair (3:45 am) with some small stops in between. We have Maari anna with us as he is coming to Port Blair to treat his broken hand.

We had coffee at small stall then we stopped to take pictures for some Eagles and pheasants. Managed to get a picture of an eagle.

2 days when we were driving up north it was dark and I didn't had a chance to admire the roads and nature for the final bit. As it is early and bright I am making it up now. Roads are curvy and nature is beautiful.

Suns up an hour before us and everyone up so early and start working pretty early. I think this why they look so healthy

If a slow moving vehicle or a heavy vehicle is blocking the road then if you beep horn once or blink lights. They will pull over and give you way. It is such a good thing everyone does. Wish this happened everywhere.

We stopped by Dhani nalla mangrove walkway. It is very beautiful and the air got some sent in it. We went to beach a very massive shoreline.

Then we went two more beaches, which are along sane shoreline.

Then had breakfast at same hotel we had on our way to Diglipur. Food here is cheap and tastes delicious. We don't get the same taste in restaurants even after paying high prices. On our way up we spent 170 rupees for three of us. Now four of us we spent 240 rupees.

Later we stopped for limestone caves, there are 170 caves but we are only allowed for 1 cave due to safety reasons.

Lime stones are formed from natural process it shines under dark light when exposed to sunlight there will be no calcium and silica formation so it turns dark and dead. There are several pictures, which show their beauty. You have to use your imagination to see the structures. There was about 1.5 km walk from drop off on boat to limestone caves. Good wee walk. Caves are alive and grow every single day. There is a resident geologist who keeps record of stuff.

Last year after the earthquake a part of it was cracked so they have to restrict the access only to certain areas. We can see calcium pools bubbling out when we are on boat ride.There was about 20 boats on either sides we were having some racing and fun. Later some stuff to eat and got the boat on to other side and onwards to Port Blair.

When closing to Port Blair we have seen many tsunami-affected areas. It's been 13 years from the effect there have been many changes few them are like less rainfall. There have been many migratory birds made this place as their holiday homes. I don't why they choose this place now not before the tsunami. It is very fascinating to think of these things.

Later reached hotel Haywizz, facilities here were fine except wifi. Later we reached to cellular jail to see light and sound show, there we find wifi to book the tickets. We managed book tickets and saw the cellular jail, very nice ambiance and saw some thunders.

We stood for national anthem, later show started they have given brief introduction and told when was jail built and how things went. How cruel they are. If anybody has seen Indian movie "Kalla pani" will have a better picture what has happened.

Later we had some street food and came to hotel and took rest.

DAY 5: 29/04/2017

Got up and had our breakfast. Then we drove to A3 movie theatre for Bahubali movie. We waited for a while to ticket counter to open. We finally got tickets for well-awaited Bahubali.

Movie was very good.

Then had lunch and took a quiet a day.

Later went for walk and did some shopping in Aberdeen bazaar.