taking a truck to meet Bhaskar

Bhaskar is a young enterpeneur from kalkota who is building a new resort "pooja paradise" on a deserted beach south of #5.

Aviad met him a couple of days earlier when he was wandering about, and he wanted some company and advice about his new place.
he even when so far as to construct a tent for us to sleep in!

we had lunch together and took a stroll down the beach to the elephant training camp with him and his wife and daughter. we all had a nice afternoon.

these pictures were taken on the way to meet him, taking a lift with a local truck.



 

 

linda with yet another "I am so happy" kathakali mimicry...



















who is the mysterious gentlemen who wrote "linda I love you" on the evening sand?

 

sorry couldnt resist MORE PICTURES FROM #7

 

more of the same

sorry for boring you with more and more pictures of us having the times of our lives in this amazingly beautiful and exotic place... yamutu kanayim.

 

too many pictures from beach #7

 

Have a look (at havelok)

First picturs are still sunrise ut beach #5 where we slept, and last picture and the ones to go are from beautiful beach #7 at sunset (since we where busy all day enjoying the island's water life, our photos are mainly from this time of the day...)


 

sunset & sunrise on our first day in havelok

 

Andaman islands at last

we arrived at port blair, and after depositing our big bags for safe keeping, we travelled ultra-light to havelock island. this place is like a cherry on the "Humos trail" and it is packed with israelis. but it is as beautiful and relaxing as people say it is. Aviad took an advanced diving course and linda burned her bum snorkling - ouch!

the words "crystal clear waters" and "marble white beaches" or even "emerald green ocean" cannot begin to describe the natural untamed beauties of the andaman islands and havelok.

these picture were all taken from our guesthouse on the beach.


 

Chennai

In Chennai we spent 1 day on our way to Andaman Islands (since our flight was from this big city), and a few hours on our way back, before landing in Kolkata (when we spent our time mostly in the air port).

Chennai is one of India's big cities. It is over crowded and polluted, and the best time we spent there was at the movies, watching all the posh young men and women who are wealthy enough to milk their parents 100 Rps for a movie.
That was also Linda's first experience of bribing someone- when we attempted to send a package to Israel (which still hasn't arrived there, so maybe the bribe thing didn't work after all...)

 

still there,,,