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Travel to Andaman and Nicobar by Ship
Main Sea Port at Andaman: Haddo Wharf, Port Blair
Ships available from: Chennai, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam
Schedule
To begin your beautiful journey at Andaman, you may decide to travel by ship. Ships sail from Chennai and Kolkata to Port Blair and back around 3 to 4 times a month. However, in Visakhapatnam, you will be able to take a ship only once a month. Your journey by ship will last around 3-4 days, last over 50-60 hours and make a stop at Port Blair for 2-4 days.
You can access the shipping schedule over a month in advance for the mainland-island sector. All travelers can access this information here!
Now that you have all the information on how the travel schedule works, let us tell you how your journey by ship will look like!
We don’t usually recommend traveling by ship. But if you’re the kind of traveler who is looking for an unusual adventure every step of your journey, you can choose this option. Although, we’d like to tell you that you’ll have plenty of that on the islands!
A few facts you should know about Travel by Ship
- Your travel by ship is a 3 to 4 day long journey. Unfortunately, the ship doesn’t act as a cruise liner, which means you won’t be provided with any entertainment options or exciting meals. Before you choose to take this journey, think of the ship as a strictly commercial choice of travel.
- The booking process is everything but easy. The lack of convenience can add a little frustration, since you can only make your bookings by physically visiting the Shipping Corporation offices in Calcutta, Chennai, or Vishakhapatnam. There’s no option for you to make these bookings online.
If you want to get a better idea of what this journey would look like, you can refer to a traveler’s experience of this journey undertaken from Calcutta to Port Blair. Just click here!
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The kayaking experience was super fun and knowledgeable. Mr.Ali was very friendly and ensured we had a clam and a relaxing paddling experience and enriched us with facts about mangrove trees, it’s ecosystem and Abadman islands and clicked some cool pics 🙂
Landing onto Ross Island from the ferry I didn’t have huge expectations. I have interest in the history of the place so was happy enough reading through the information boards and taking a walk around the island, seeing the ruins of old buildings and imagining what life would have been like here in the 1850s when at some point it was even dubbed the Paris of the East. There is so much history and almost a melancholy to the place imagining what went on here ~200 years ago.
The walks around the small island in that sense are quite serene. It is not a ghost town but an entire ghost island albeit a small one.
The big surprise to me was the light and sound show in the evening. I had a pre conceived notion of a fairly boring and standard show but boy was I wrong !
I have seen many a show and exhibition about history is many places around the world but hands down this was the BEST light and sound performance I have ever seen.
The whole show is scripted brilliantly and in the open backdrop that it is is projected it is just awe inspiring. The narration by Gulzar and the poems he includes for this show can make your hair stand on their ends. And the overall quality of the sound and projection is right up there.
Throughout the show I was left hoping that it goes on and on and doesn’t end. This will remain one of the highlights of the trip to the Andamans. I would go so far as saying this show was better than the one at the cellular jail in almost every aspect.
Just don’t miss this! One has to reserve an evening in port Blair for the trip across the channel to Ross
Ross Island is ideally a two part trip, the morning to evening portion includes going around the island looking at the ruins from the era of the British and Japanese rule. the late evening portion includes a spectacular sound, light & video show (yes you read it correctly!!) which has been created specially for Ross island by Revathi (the actress)
This is a over hyped, and not worth the time and money spent to reach here. It used to be called the “Paris of the East” when the British settled here. But everything is destroyed now.
The only good place here is a beach that is on the other side. You will need to climb down and up a lot of steps to get there.
