STUTI CHANGLE
If you love to travel and don’t mind to take adventures on the run, you’ve landed on the right page. Winter is on its way and that opens up a sea of opportunities for beach lovers. If you are making a plan to travel to India and do not look up to cliched options like Goa, here’s another place full of adventure and relaxation!
Beaches of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are highly untouched and serene. The best part is you feel as if you are in the Maldives due to the scintillating white sand and clear sky blue ocean. If you are an Indian, you just got lucky, as you would not face any strangulating visa issue!
I have truly fallen in love with the place and my story is centered around one of the best experiences I have had while in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Havelock island, one of the best over there, is situated towards the west end of the Andaman island group. It offers you the opportunity to explore scuba diving and snorkeling. A lot of trained scuba drivers from across have come to find their way to live on this island and offer professional training and scuba diving services for travelers and adventure sports enthusiasts. The training offered varies from 1 hour to a couple of months depending upon the amount of time one wishes to devote. The number of hours trained is also proportional to the depth of the sea you are allowed to enter.
Now, Scuba might look scary at first but its just a thrilling yet wonderful experience. Trust me. I did my training for a day with Ocean tribe scuba. They call you early in the morning for the activity and give you the instructions and training for an hour. Post that you are taken deep into the ocean for about 45 mins. The diving fees is reasonable and negotiable depending upon the number of members like you could insist on a group deal if you are more in number.
Once you put your scuba suits on and start pacing towards the ocean you feel as if lightning has struck your body. You don’t know what stands behind the door! But once you have entered and are acclimated to the environment down there you realize that you have entered a completely different world altogether. You see the wild adventures of the national geographic and discovery channel come to life.
It is a place where time stands still, thoughts cease and awe strikes. It is much more than what could be translated into words. You experience a different form of life around you. If you ever feared water like one of my friends did, you would feel liberated in the end of the day. When you come back, you just want to lie down in peace, maybe by the side of the ocean, and get lost into what is called timelessness. You will never be able to appreciate the beauty & eternity found in the ocean if you have just gazed upon it from the outside. If you still have not experienced it, plan your next trip to the magnificent Andaman and Nicobar Islands. These photographs are too less to explain what you will encounter in the depths of the ocean, it is only when you would enter this arena in solitude and walk past the real creatures including groups of fishes swimming around you, you would know what actually stood behind the door of fear. The Andaman seabed is also rich in corals, although you are not allowed to carry them back due to government rules that prohibit such acts in an initiative to maintain the sanctity of the place! I have embedded a few pictures with the post for you to have a look around!
