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Sri Vetrimalai Murugan Temple

Sri Vetrimalai Murugan Temple

pilgrimage site · Andaman & Nicobar Islands

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Andaman & Nicobar Islands
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Pilgrimage Site

The Murugan temple in Port Blair is the principal Hindu pilgrimage site for the islands, and in a territory this scattered that matters far more than the size of the building. Festivals through the year draw people here rather than anywhere else, so pick your day deliberately: an ordinary one if you want it quiet, a festival day if you want to see it working. Either way it is a stop, not a morning.

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Every trip to the islands starts here — the only notified town in the territory, with the only major airport and the port everything else connects through. It is roughly 1,190 km from Chennai and 1,255 km from Kolkata, so treat it as a journey rather than a coastal add-on to a mainland holiday. The town sits on South Andaman with the Bay of Bengal on one side and the Andaman Sea on the other. Its history is a prison history: the British re-established a colony here in February 1858 for prisoners of the 1857 rebellion, and the Cellular Jail was finished in 1906.

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