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Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Distance is the thing most people underestimate here. Baratang lies 150 km north of Port Blair, in the North and Middle Andaman district, and moving between…
Nowhere else in the Indian subcontinent has a confirmed active volcano.
Rain is the number worth planning around here, 2,800 millimetres a year, enough that you should expect the weather to rearrange your days rather than the…
Two islands, North and South Cinque, sitting on the north side of Duncan Passage between Rutland and Passage Island.
Roughly 85 percent of Great Nicobar sits inside this reserve: a core of about 885 sq km with a 12-km belt of forest buffer around it.
Very little is written about this island, and that is the honest starting point.
The fourth largest island in the chain, and one that most island-hopping plans quietly skip.
A remote, road-free island reached by ferry, Long Island has Lalaji Bay, jungle trails and no cars on it at all.
The hill was Mount Harriet until 17 October 2021, when the Union Government renamed it for the Manipuri freedom fighters of the 1891 Anglo-Manipur War…
India's easternmost land is a volcanic island whose peak reaches 710 metres out of the northern Andaman Sea, about 74 km east of the main body of the Andamans.
The name on the ticket may not be the one in your head: officially this is Shaheed Dweep, Martyr's Island, though Neil is still what most people say.
Geography here is not what an Indian map suggests. The chain lies about 150 km northwest of Aceh in Sumatra and roughly 1,300 km southeast of the…
The far northern end of the chain, and the distance is the fact that matters: 137 km from Port Blair, which is no morning's outing in any direction.
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.
First, clear up the confusion: this Ross Island is the one off the northeast coast of North Andaman, not the Ross Island opposite Port Blair.
Regularly rated among Asia's best beaches, Radhanagar on Swaraj Dweep is a flawless arc of white sand, turquoise water and west-facing sunsets.
Closeness is the argument for it: 20 km south of Port Blair, which by the standards of this archipelago counts as next door, and it belongs to the South…
At 732 metres this is the top of the whole archipelago, which on an island means the walk up is modest by mainland standards and the view is not.
Three names and nobody living on it. The island answers to Sir Hugh Rose, to plain Rose Island, and sometimes to Little Neill Island, that last one worth…
Maps often carry it as plain Peel Island, which is the version worth using when you are asking about boats.
Most visitors spend the bulk of their time on this island without quite thinking of it as one.
Sixty-three kilometres north of Port Blair, and firmly inside the North and Middle Andaman district. That is what is known, and it is not much.
On laid-back Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep), Vijaynagar is a calm, shallow beach lined with mahua trees, shallow a long way out, and an easy cycle at sunrise.
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