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The Kumbh Mela is the largest public gathering and collective act of faith, anywhere in the world. The Mela draws tens of millions of pilgrims over the course of approximately 48 days to bathe at the sacred confluence of the Ganga, the Yamuna, and the mystical Sarasvati. Primarily, this congregation includes Ascetics, Saints, Sadhus, Sadhvis, Kalpvasis, and Pilgrims from all walks of life.

The Kumbh Mela is the biggest religious congregation in the world.

India’s Kumbh Mela has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an “Intangible cultural heritage of humanity” and held up as the world’s largest peaceful gathering of pilgrims.

In continuation of the astrological calculation, the event of Kumbh takes place as per the following astrological positions

• When Jupiter enters the Aquarius constellation along with the Sun moving in to the Aries constellation, the Kumbh festival is held at Haridwar.

Kumbh Mela, in Hinduism, is a religious pilgrimage that is celebrated four times over a course of 12 years. The geographical location of Kumbh Mela spans over four locations in India and the Mela site keeps rotating between one of the four pilgrimages on four sacred rivers as listed below

1.Haridwar on the Ganges in Uttarakhand

2.Ujjain on the Shipra in Madhya Pradesh

When Jupiter moves into Leo, the Kumbh festival is held at Nasik on the banks of Godavari and in the event of Jupiter moving into Leo and the Sun entering Aries, the Kumbh festival is held at Ujjain. When Jupiter enters Libra and the Sun and the Moon remain together on Kartik Amavasya (8th month of Hindu year) then also the Kumbh Festival is held at Ujjain.

3.Nashik on the Godavari in Maharashtra

4.Prayagraj at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the mythical Sarasvati in Uttar Pradesh,

Pilgrims to the Kumbh Mela come from all sections of the religion ranging from Sadhus (saints) and Naga Sadhus who practice ‘sadhana’ and keenly follow a strict path of spiritual discipline, to Hermits who leave their seclusion and come to visit the civilization only during the Kumbh Mela, to seekers of spirituality, and to common people practicing Hinduism.

During the Kumbh Mela, a number of ceremonies take place; the traditional procession of Akharas called ‘Peshwai’ on elephant backs, horses and chariots, the shining swords and rituals of Naga Sadhus during ‘Shahi Snaan’, and many other cultural activities that attract millions of pilgrims to attend the Kumbh Mela.

The story of Samudra Manthan,

one of the best-known episodes in the Hindu mythology, narrated in the Bhagavad Purana states that the sacred alignments of celestial bodies directly relate to the Kumbh festival. It took 12 divine days to carry the Amrit to the heavens. As one divine day of Gods is equivalent to one year of the humans, the journey to the heavens symbolizes 12 years in human terms.Mythological studies suggest that the Kumbh festival and the Ganga are related to each other. 

Apart from its primary bathing rituals, the social aspect of the festival also revolves around the various Yajnas, the chanting of Vedic Mantras, holy elucidations, traditional dances, devotional songs, programs based on mythical stories, and prayers.

Kumbh has been spiritually uniting the people of India and across the world since time immemorial and will continue doing so for years to come.

Akharas are a symbol of social order, unity, culture, and ethics. Their main objective is the establishment of spiritual values in society.

Shaiva Akahras

The favored deity is Lord Shiva. They worship Lord Shiva in various forms based on the specific beliefs and ideologies of their organization.

Udaseen Akharas

Chandra Dev, the son of the first guru of the Sikh community is considered as the founder of the Udaseen Akhara. Followers of this sect principally offer their adulations to ‘ॐ’.

Vaishnava Akharas :

Lord Vishnu is the favored deity of this sect. They worship Lord Vishnu in various forms based on the specific beliefs and ideologies of their organization.

Do visit Vrindavan also for a better understanding of Indian Culture.

Musee d’Orsay Unsuitable for modern trains, its deserted platforms finally closed in 1979. Plans to demolish it in 1970 were overturned just in time and it became a listed building.

There is no draught in this train station, just art and light! Inaugurates during the Exposition Universelle of 1900, the Muse de Orsay train station resembled a fine arts palace to the painter Edouard Detaille ….which was what it was to become 86 years later.

Its immense volume was transformed into a museum whose canopy, nave, cupolas, pillars, iron girders, and stucco decors draws unanimous praise.

The huge clock in the glass roof of the central alley dominates a chronological layout over three main levels, focusing on the major artistic movement in western art from 1848 to 1914: painting, sculpture, graphic arts and art object, as well as furniture, architecture, and photography,

The period was so productive, the collections so rich in wonderful works (and in -ism: expressionism, fauvism,etc.)that it seems impossible to cite one unique masterpiece.

La Vie (Zervos I 179)

is a 1903 oil painting by Pablo Picasso. It is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Picasso’s Blue Period.^[

The painting is in the permanent collection of the Musée d’Orsay .

La Vie (The Life) was painted in Barcelona in May 1903. It is 196.5 by 129.2 centimetres (6.45 ft × 4.24 ft) and portrays two pairs of people, a naked couple confronting a mother bearing a child in her arms.

 In the background of the room, apparently a studio, there are two paintings within the painting, the upper one showing a crouching and embracing nude couple, the lower one showing a lonesome crouching nude person very similar to Sorrow by Vincent Van Gogh.

With this Picasso repainted another motif, a birdman who attacks a reclining naked woman, traces of which are visible to the naked eye.

An important example of expressionism, La Vie was Picasso’s memorial tribute to his close friend Carlos Casagemas (1881-1901), a fellow Spanish art student who had accompanied him on his first trip to Paris (October 1900), where they established themselves temporarily in the Montmartre studio of Isidre Nonell (1872-1911), a friend from Barcelona.

A moody individual with a taste for Nietzsche and a tendency to depression, Casagemas fell in love with an artist’s model called Germaine Pichot (1880-1948).

As I have studied Geology as an optional subject and gone through a detailed analysis of Minerals, their manner of formation, origin, color, Pleochroism, Form And Habit, Cleavage and Relief.

So,once i happened to watch them in reality in Paris in GALERIE DE MINÉRALOGIE ET DE GÉOLOGIE (Meteorites)and this
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle(for minerals).I truly wish to hug them ,i was so delighted that i wish to tell them you know i have learned about you fellas and watching you in reality is my dream cum true moment.

Aragonite, widespread mineral, the stable form of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) at high pressures. It may be distinguished from calcite, the commoner form of calcium carbonate, by its greater hardness and specific gravity.

Aragonite is always found in deposits formed at low temperatures near the surface of the Earth, as in caves as stalactites, in the oxidized zone of ore minerals (with lead substituting for calcium), in serpentine and other basic rocks, in sediments, and in iron-ore deposits.

Hyaline quartz, better known as rock crystal, is pure silica which is frequently in the form of hexagonal prisms surmounted by a pyramid at each end.Like all siliceous minerals,

hyaline quartz does not effervescence to acids; it sparkles with lighter and it easily scratches glass and steel. It represents the seventh term of the Mohs scale, that is to say that its hardness is between that of the orthoclase and that of the topaz.

Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide mineral with a chemical composition of Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂. It was one of the first ores used to produce copper metal. It is of minor importance today as an ore of copper because it is usually found in small quantities and can be sold for higher prices for other types of use.

Malachite has been used as a gemstone and sculptural material for thousands of years and is still popular today. Today it is most often cut into cabochons or beads for jewelry use.

Malachite has a green color that does not fade over time or when exposed to light. Those properties, along with its ability to be easily ground to a powder, made malachite a preferred pigment and coloring agent for thousands of years.

Dolomite

Dolomite is a common rock-forming mineral. It is a calcium magnesium carbonate with a chemical composition of CaMg(CO₃)₂. It is the primary component of the sedimentary rock known as dolostone and the metamorphic rock known as dolomitic marble. Limestone that contains some dolomite is known as dolomitic limestone.

Dolomite is rarely found in modern sedimentary environments, but dolostones are very common in the rock record. They can be geographically extensive and hundreds to thousands of feet thick. Most rocks that are rich in dolomite were originally deposited as calcium carbonate muds that were postdepositionally altered by magnesium-rich pore water to form dolomite.

Azurite

Azurite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral with a chemical composition of Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂. It is best known for its characteristic deep blue to violet-blue color. The blue color, known as “azure,” is like the deep blue evening skies often seen above deserts and winter landscapes.

Azurite precipitation occurs in pore spaces, fractures, and cavities of the subsurface rock. The resulting azurite is usually massive or nodular. In rare situations, azurite is found as stalactitic and botryoidal growths. Well-formed monoclinic crystals are infrequently found.

Euchroite is a hydrated copperarsenatehydroxide mineral with formula: Cu₂AsO₄OH·3H₂O. It is a vitreous green to emerald green mineral crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 – 4.0 and a specific gravity of 3.39 – 3.45. It was first described in 1823 in Ľubietová, Slovakia.

So,here is description of minerals and meteorites.

1.Benld is an ordinary chondrite (H6) that fell the morning of September 29^th, 1938, in Macoupin County, Illinois. 

The Benld meteorite was only the second meteorite recovered in Illinois (there are now 10 recognized meteorites from the state), and its fall was quite spectacular. 

The meteorite was described by B.H. Wilson in Popular Astronomy (1938) as “crashing out of the battlements of heaven, aimed apparently with the precision of a crack artilleryman, not only striking but penetrating the roof of a garage, as well as the car inside, thereby creating a situation, which, in several respects, is believed to be unique in the annals of meteoric phenomena”.

2.The Sylacauga meteorite is the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being. The grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a farm house, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Hodges while she napped on a couch.[3] The 34-year-old woman was badly bruised on one side of her body, but was able to walk. The event received worldwide publicity.

Havelock now named Swaraj island to have an interesting history of stay intact even after the tsunami in 2004, now its most attractive tourist spot and however, the prices of commodities here are more than other islands.

How to spend days in Havelock ?

Havelock offers a whole range of sea sports and activities they are having trekking and boat route to elephant island, the most beaches of Asia Radha Nagar beach, and kalapathar beach.

History of Swaraj Island:

Havelock Island is named after a British general, Sir Henry Havelock, who served in India. In December 2018, it was renamed as Swaraj Island as a tribute to Subhas Chandra Bose.

Bose had hoisted the Indian flag at Port Blair on 30 December 1943 and proclaimed the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as territories liberated from British rule. He had subsequently named Andaman Island as Shaheed and Nicobar Island as Swaraj.

Know About The Best Beach in Asia

Radhanagar Beach on the western coast, also known as Number 7 Beach, is one of the most popular beaches on Havelock and was named “Best Beach in Asia” by Time in 2004. Other notable beaches include Elephant Beach on the northwest coast and Vijay Nagar Beach (No. 5), Beach No. 3 and Beach No. 1 on the east coast. Kalapathar is another famous beach.

Our hotel was in between both the beaches and we were able to visit both beaches twice daily in our three-day stay. Places to visit here

1.Elephanta island :

Elephant Beach is one of the major attractions for people on recreational and adventure trips to the Andaman Islands. The beach is secluded in the northern part of the Havelock Island and there are two ways to reach the island   

A. accessible through a boat and it will take you in 20 min and usually boat stay there for two hours.

 B. By trekking:

through the forest to reach their separation by a dense tropical jungle – and on the way to Radhanagar beach, you will find young boys working as a local guide to help in that way.

We were accompanied by a boy named Ashish (16years) he was having reverence for whole nature and cleaning plastics bag and disposals of others also, at the same time he was curious about how the mainland India is and where we belong

He gave us memorable photographs of the whole journey and making us aware of strange flowers, tallest trees, and mangroves and small marine fishes.

Radhanagar Beach on the western coast, also known as Number 7 Beach, is one of the most popular beaches on Havelock and was named “Best Beach in Asia” by Time in 2004

They belong to the family of Pomacentridae genera honor coral reef the first to be noticed. As a group, they are a great nest for colonizing and exploiting the Reef. 

Between the poisonous tentacles of a sea anemone. Two subgroups of animal fishes known for these islands, the amphibians, and the premnas. 
Former has more than a dozen varieties and outnumber the letter with only two known varieties. They are territorial and strongly defensive. 

2. Kalapathar Beach

is Beach No. 1 on the east coast known as Kalapathar is another famous beach, it is less crowded and sea creatures could be seen here.

For me, this trip was no less than freedom and liberty, as I have earned this priced trip after love cum arranged marriage. In fact, we both were finding solace and peace of simply being with each other. After so many seesaw phases in our relationship, we finally managed to walkover interstate /intercultural marriage. This was our first trip after marriage and it was miraculous. Typical (Honey Moon destination)

So, we reached from hajipur to Patna then to Kolkatta to Port Blair. I was enjoying the five-meter saree and red Chura(Bangle)as its kind of dress code for newlywed brides. Apparently, the island is famous for catering couples nowadays once was a place for excruciation of Indian freedom fighters, higher most torcher was to send them to Kaalapani(Andaman )   but now it shows the prowess of Indian navy and richness of marine life , colorful corals, and ethnic tribes.

Geographical location: The Andaman & Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. This territory is known as A & N Islands, or ANI. It is located in the Indian Ocean, in the southern reaches of the Bay of Bengal, nearer to Indonesia and Thailand. This comprises of two island groups – the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands – which separate the Andaman Sea to the east from the Indian Ocean.

Cellular Jail

in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, stands as a dark reminiscence of the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. This most dreaded and grueling colonial prison situated in the remote archipelago was used by the British particularly to exile Indian political prisoners. Isolated from the mainland, this jail, also referred to as Kala Pani (where Kala means death or time and Pani means water in Sanskrit) witnessed the most atrocious punishments imposed on prisoners. India’s struggle for independence saw imminent freedom fighters like Batukeshwar Dutt and Veer Savarkar being incarcerated in this jail. The jail is now open to public viewing as a National Memorial, and its museum gives one a glimpse of years of India’s struggle for freedom.  

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

  (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician, lawyer, and writer, known for his activism for Indian independence. Savarkar popularized the term Hindutva

 
Savarkar’s revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society
The airport at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar’s capital, has been named Veer Savarkar International Airport.^[ The commemorative blue plaque on India House fixed by the Historic Building and Monuments Commission for England reads “Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 1883-1966 Indian patriot and philosopher lived here”

These two groups are separated by the 10° N parallel, the Andamans lying to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south. The capital of this territory is the Andamanese town of Port Blair. There are 572 islands in the territory, of which only some 38 are permanently inhabited.  Most of the islands (about 550) are in the Andamans group, 26 of which are inhabited. The smaller Nicobars comprise some 22 main islands (10 inhabited).

The Andamans and Nicobars are separated by a channel (the Ten Degree Channel) some 150 km wide. The territory’s population as per the most recent (2011) Census of India was 3,79,944 and the literacy rate is 86.27%. Added together, the total land area of the territory is approximately 8,249 km². The total area of the Andaman Islands is some 6,408 km²; that of the Nicobar Islands approximately 1,841 km². Other islands are Shaheed Dweep, Swaraj Dweep, Netaji Subhas Chandra

Hindi and English are the official languages of the islands. Bengali is the dominant and most spoken language, with 26% of the population speaking Bengali. The other major languages spoken in the islands are Hindi (18.23%), Tamil (17.68%), Telugu (12.81%), Malayalam (8.11%) and Nicobarese (8.05%) according to 2001 Census of India. Other minor spoken languages are Kurukh/Oraon, Munda and Kharia. Andaman Creole Hindi is widely used as a trade language in the Andamans.

Mount Harriet National Park  

Mount Harriet (383 meters (1,257 ft), which is part of the park, is the third-highest peak in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago next to Saddle Peak

The park is named in commemoration of Harriet Tytler, the second wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist and photographer, who were appointed Superintendent of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans from April 1862 to February 1864 Harriet is remembered for her work in documenting the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time of the Revolt of 1857 in India.

The picture on the backside of ₹ 20 note

The ₹20 banknote of the Mahatma Gandhi Series is 147 × 63 mm red-orange colored, with the obverse side featuring a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with a signature of the governor of Reserve Bank of India. It has the Braille feature to assist the visually challenged in identifying the currency. The reverse side features the famous Mount Harriet in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Chatham Saw Mill

 is the sawmill situated in Chatham Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India, It was set up in 1883 with the primary objective to meet the local requirements of saw and timber for the constructional works. It is owned by the state government.

Chidiya Tapu:

This is the place is far away from Port Blair but is the essence of Nature creations… The serenity of place allows to enjoy till sunset..and before that one could enjoy sand side games. Try it if you have enough time.

Chidiya Tapu, well known for its rich collection of birds, white-spotted deer, and orchids, draws many visitors and is a perfect place for nature lovers. The sky of Chidiya Tapu is filled with around 46 species of birds namely, drongos, hanging parrot, scarlet minivet, emerald dove, long-tailed and red-breasted parakeets, white-bellied sea eagles, and grey-fronted and imperial green pigeons to name a few. 

In the Andaman Islands, the various Andamanese people maintained their separated existence through the vast majority of this time, diversifying into distinct linguistic, cultural and territorial groups.

India is the world’s second largest producer of silk. In Karnataka, the country’s largest silk-producing state, more than a million people earn their livelihood by making silk.One fine day ,we get opportunity to visit Sathnur village with six other meditation teachers.Here we have to conduct satsang in evening .So,we were roaming the villages street then encountered silkworms rearing in house

It all begins with mating. Chandana owns a family business of silk rearing in village near kanakpura, about 40kms from Bengaluru, runs a grainage, a facility that produces silkworm eggs. She  has been in the business for 12 years and is well acquainted with the silkworm’s needs. “Silkworms are finicky creatures,” she tells me.

 They thrive in warm, humid environments, but sicken if it is too warm or too humid.

After 5,000 years of domestication and breeding, the silkworm moth is the world’s only completely domesticated insect, wholly dependent on human help for survival. Due to captive breeding for so many years, its wings have reduced to small, ineffectual appendages that can flutter but don’t help it fly, not even to its mate.

At the grainage, they manually pair moths. On a sheet of paper marked with 40 circles are 40 small, plastic cups. Inside each cup are a male and a female silkworm moth. Two hours alone in the cup and the two are done mating.

Then they remove the male, which is smaller in appearance, from each cup, leaving the female inside. Around 48 hours later, the female moth begins laying eggs. When she is done, she dies. When the plastic cup is removed, each circle marked on the paper bears the female’s output: 400-500 eggs, each the size and shape of a pinhead. And so, with one death and many births, begins the story of silk.

The eggs hatch about eight days later, revealing caterpillars that resemble minuscule black threads, each about 3mm long. From now on, the silkworm has a single agenda—to eat.

 Unlike wild silkworms, these domesticated caterpillars cannot move in search of leaves to feed on. Silkworms are fussy eaters and have a marked preference for the leaves of the mulberry tree

 The newly hatched caterpillars are kept on large trays strewn with a generous layer of chopped mulberry leaves. At this stage, they loll about in air-conditioned comfort and are given only tender, young leaves, .

Caterpillars are far more sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and humidity than moths.

Like other caterpillars, silkworms go through five instars, which means they moult—or shed their skin—four times. Each time they moult, they emerge bigger and hungrier. Chandana rears silkworms only up to the second instar. So, to follow the young caterpillars’ progress through the silk trail, we visit Manohar, another family nearby.

Manohar and his family look after the caterpillars from the third instar. Next to his house, in a darkened building built especially for this purpose, Manohar has stacks of large bamboo trays lined with old but washed and disinfected saris. He spreads newspaper on these and then the silkworm’s chosen delicacy, mulberry leaves. One corner of the room has a huge pile of mulberry leaves, all of which will be consumed by his caterpillars in a day. The caterpillars need to be fed three times a day. “We feed them first and only then have our lunch,” says Manohar. By the end of the fifth instar, the caterpillar weighs about 10,000 times as much as it did when it was born.

Finally, some 28 days after the eggs hatch, the silkworm is ready for the next major stage in its life—metamorphosis. The caterpillars indicate this by going off their food. The farmers then carefully transfer each caterpillar on to a chandranki, a circular bamboo mount that is traditionally used for the silkworms to build their cocoons in.

It is fascinating to watch the caterpillars as they get ready to pupate. Each caterpillar moves its head restlessly, trying to find support to start its weaving. And then I notice a very fine, gossamer-like filament, seemingly made of light itself, trailing from a caterpillar’s mouth—silk!

Two-three days of constant spinning and weaving later, each caterpillar lies ensconced in a cocoon that looks like a pale yellow and fluffy blob smaller than my thumb. Two-three days later, the cocoons are taken to the market. By this time, as Manohar points out, each caterpillar has been handled at least thrice—once when it arrived, once when it was transferred to the chandranki and, finally, when the cocoon was removed from the chandranki to be sold.

Then they are sold at Comprising a series of cavernous halls, each filled with hundreds of large metal trays piled with cocoons, the market smells of cocoons and commerce. A knot of men moves through the maze of trays like a swarm of bees, stopping at each tray for fast and furious auction. Bids fly through the air. ₹ 320! ₹ 340! ₹ 360! for a kilo of cocoon!

The cocoons then move into the next stage of production, silk reeling.

. You can see these blue-shirted men cycling around town, bent under the weight of the huge bales of cocoons that they carry on their heads. Each bale weighs an astonishing 30-50kg.

The silkworms have led a cushy life till now, with their every need taken care of. Reeling is where it all comes to a gruesome end.

Shamshir works as a reeler, as does the rest of his family. Silk-reeling near Bengaluru happens mostly in small, cramped rooms attached to small, cramped houses. Men and women work in these dark, dingy, smoke- and steam-filled rooms for 8-10 hours a day, dipping their hands in scalding water. Essentially, the cocoons are dunked in boiling water, which allows the cocoon to be unravelled without breaking the silk fibre. When the silk has been reeled completely, what’s left is the pupa that was inside each cocoon, now dead.

 For animal lovers, this is the abhorrent part of the silk-making process: The making of mulberry silk necessarily involves the killing of hundreds of silkworm larvae.

The last stop in the journey of silk is the weavers. There are power looms galore in and around Bengaluru, but the characteristic clickety-clack of handlooms can now only be heard at a handful of places on the outskirts of the city

Further there are hundreds of threads dangling from it, vertically, horizontally, everywhere. Parts of it move up and down rhythmically, operated by the weaver’s feet. Others slide from side to side in tandem with his hands. “You have to use all parts of your body to operate these,” smiles Ambareesh, who learnt the craft from his father.

It takes a day to set up the loom for a particular sari and one-three weeks to weave one. The end product of all this controlled chaos is perfection in the form of a silk sari.

Beginning with the people who bring male and female moths together, to those who tend to the mulberry plants, feed the caterpillars and enable their metamorphosis, to the men who bear the cocoons on their backs, to the reelers, who reel silk while inhaling smoke and steam and, finally, the weavers who patiently weave the silken magic, we have come to the culmination of the silk trail—six yards of regal splendour.

Shaheed Dweep (Neil island) is a tiny but beautiful island located 37 Kms. to the south of the Andaman Islands. We arrived at this unique and rustic charming island by afternoon, First time in my life I was seeing such clear water that seashore was visible. Till now, I can feel that soothing sea wind and breath in that ultraquiet air.

With unexplored coral reefs, brilliant bio-diversity, white sandy beaches, and tropical forest and vegetation, it is one of the hot tourist spots in the Andamans.

Shaheed Dweep is known as the ‘vegetable bowl’ of the Andamans.

The settlers named the beaches after mythical characters of the epic Ramayana (Bharatpur, Laxmanpur, Sitapur, Ramnagar, etc.) The island, with its very relaxed vibes and long, deserted beaches is a place to chill out after the “bustle” of Havelock.

Long stretches of white sand , turquoise blue water, and lush green forest are visible as far as our sight reached

Type of erosional landform is the sea arch, which forms as the result of different rates of erosion typically due to the varied resistance of bedrock. These archways may have an arcuate or rectangular shape, with the opening extending below water level. The height of an arch can be up to tens of meters above sea level.

It is common for sea arches to form when a rocky coast undergoes erosion and a wave-cut platform develops. Continued erosion can result in the collapse of an arch, leaving an isolated sea stack on the platform. Still further erosion removes the stack, and eventually, only the wave-cut platform remains adjacent to the eroding coastal cliff.

The approach to the natural bridge is through a small hamlet, lined by tall mahua trees. The best time to visit the place is at the low tides otherwise one may get stuck if the time is not noted on. The bridge accompanied to the beach is termed as the dead coral beach. The beach is mainly suited for trekking purpose not for swimming.

The beach is occupied with many shops selling souvenirs like t-shirt, seashells and foods, tender coconut and fruit near the place. Perhaps a lifetime experience for the youth to hope around to its exotic flavor.

Ramnagar Beach

One of the most underrated beaches in all of Neil Island, the Ramnagar Beach with its white sand shore, numerous trees (providing plenty of shade), and amazing coral reefs is everything glorious!

Laxmanpur Beach

In simple words, this beach is one of the best beaches to experience a sunset in the Andaman Islands.

You can explore the rich marine creatures and coral reefs. Those who pursue fishing will get the best catches of the day.

The widest part of the island is about 5 km in length. You can walk the whole island in about two hours.

This was the best place for contemplation and thought-provoking, memories of these beaches are etched in our life, we are simply waiting for next time to visit again.