Maldives Tour Packages You Must Check-Out

Located amidst the Indian Ocean, Maldives is a tropical beauty comprising beautiful coral islands dotted with palms & lagoons. Make your Maldives sojourn a lifetime moment and cherish each of your moments to great heights with our range of Maldives Tour packages. Enjoy a visit to some of the most resplendent, crystal clear & pristine beaches and enjoy a walk along the shore with your love-interest. And, if you are wishing to taste adventure then enjoy some beach activities at some of the highly flocked beaches of Maldives.

Book Maldives Honeymoon packages with asapholidays.com and enjoy a romantic escape to the Maldives, a destination where romance is in the air.

Why Choose Maldives as Holiday Destination?

Dreaming for an idyllic vacation with your better half? Looking for a great destination for a family tour? Maldives Tourism boasts pristine turquoise waters, vibrant coral reefs, and sparkling sandy beaches. The landscape with the most picturesque natural beauty and colorful culture makes one of the most happening destinations for a vacation in South East Asia. Visit the beautiful Addu Atoll, enjoy beautiful sunset views with a boat cruise, and pamper yourself with a spa treatment on your holiday in the Maldives. Maldives Tour package offers a whole new experience for travelers looking for a holiday on a wonderful landscape.

Why Choose ASAP Holidays for Your Maldives Honeymoon Trip?

• Our Maldives tour packages are available in customization with your travel interests’ & preferences. Just let us know what do you want, and we will take care of everything.
• No Hidden Cost. Pay for what you get.
• We work in close coordination with the best travel agents & tour operators of Maldives to design the best in price holiday package for you.
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What We Offer for Your Maldives Tour Packages?

ASAP Holidays specializes in providing the best Maldives Tour Packages, Honeymoon Packages for the Maldives, and affordable Maldives Holiday Tours. Our all-inclusive Maldives Tour Packages includes everything right from hotel accommodation, transfers, airfare, and complete Maldives sightseeing tour.

Best time to book your Maldives Tour Package

The best time to visit the Maldives is from November to April. However, the peak season is between December and March. May to October is the monsoon season in the Maldives, which reaches its peak during June. The dry season come with a high price tag, which is indeed worth paying as rainy season won’t let you do anything except for staying inside, enjoying a drink, working out or scuba diving.

Book Affordable Maldives Tour Packages With ASAP Holidays

An independent island country with a collection of the most beautiful sunsets, Maldives is the second name for “Paradise On Earth.” Scattered around the Indian Sub-Continent, this island nation consists of 26 coral atolls and 1190 beautiful islands, making it an idyllic beach destination. The coral atolls in the Maldives are spread over 1,800 km with an average distance of 50 km between each island. To enjoy exclusive deals on the Maldives tour package, book it now on Asap holidays and unravel the fascinating world of serenity and divinity. 

The island city, Maldives has always been a dream destination for all scuba divers around the world. It features endless white-sand beaches, azure waters, palm trees; all this together make it the ultimate holiday resort with sun, sea and sand!  The beauty of Maldives has always been known for centuries by the various empires that controlled these islands. Around 500 BC, Persian traders used the Maldives as a stopover during their travels through Asia and Africa. The merchants described it as “Paradise On Planet”. Today, Maldives has managed to attract millions of tourists every year despite its small size.

Additionally, the country boasts an extensive coral reef system with plenty of coral species. In these waters, one can see many colourful varieties of fish as well as other marine animals such as sea turtles and dolphins. Take your breath away with scuba diving in turquoise water, and get your Maldives tour packages from India customised with ASAP Holidays. 

Best time to visit Maldives

• January – March: Maldives from January to March is considered the dry season with average temperatures varying from 24 degrees Celsius to 31 degrees Celsius. The season is ideal for sightseeing, drooling over local cuisine, and exploring water sports. 
• April – September: Known as the wet season, one can expect strong winds and rains in the Maldives from April to December. The time is perfect for surfers with an average water temperature ranging between 129 mm to 216 mm. 
• October – December: During this period, you can witness prolonged sun during the day which is perfect to explore the white beaches with blue waters. The weather is warm and rainy with temperatures clocking between 25 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees Celsius.

How to reach Maldives?

• Reaching Maldives By Air: The best way to reach Maldives is by Air. This island paradise has 5 international airports with regular flight services from other countries around the world. Malé International Airport is the busiest in the country that lies on the Hulhulé Island. Grab cheap Maldives tour packages to find direct flights to Maldives. 
• Reaching Maldives By Road: There is no way to reach Maldives by road as it is an island country. 
• Reaching Maldives By Rail: There is no way to reach Maldives by Rail as there are no rail lines. 
• Reaching Maldives By Sea: Travelling India to Maldives via sea route is only possible with cruise ships from Mumbai and Kochi. Your cruise journey can take around 3 to 6 days in total to reach this archipelago. 

Things To Do In Maldives Holiday Package

1. Enjoy a perfect pool day at Adaaran Prestige Vadoo: In the serene waters of the sparkling South Male’ Atoll, a place where luxury resorts exist to rejuvenate our weary souls. This astonishing island retreat offers several villas and private plunge pools to relax and rejuvenate your soul like never before. This upscale resort also offers therapeutic spa therapies, Balinese massage, couple massages, foot massages, and facial treatments. 
2. Soak sun in the middle of the paradise at Hulhumale Beach: One of the pristine beaches of Maldives, Hulhumale Beach is perfect to walk naked feet on white sand where crystal-clear water meets the sand. If you really want to relax and chill out or want to spend some quality time enjoying the beauty of nature, this is the place for you. You can even savour delicious local cuisine and authentic seafood that is easily available at the stalls on the beach. 
3. Walkthrough the lively streets of Capital Island Male’: Male’ is the capital of the Maldives. The island is particularly well suited for sightseeing, strolling through colourful streets, shopping at the open markets and savouring traditional Maldivian cuisine. A boat ride through the town’s canals offers a view of colourful houses, gardens and mosques. One can visit several museums or even go on an excursion to one of the nearby islands by small boat. 
4. Experience underwater adventure at the Banana Reef: Stay as long as possible at the edge of the sea, breathing through a snorkel and exploring the depths is the best thing to do in the Maldives. This will take you to a  fascinating world – where fish and other marine life form their society. You can also feel a breeze of saltwater against your skin. You’ll get the chance to see the colourful corals that thrive in the water below 10 meters deep. 
5. Try out Jet-Skiing at Male Atoll: Sitting snugly on your inflatable board or ski tube, you are being pulled by a speedboat at high speed within the calm waters of the paradise island nation. No matter how deep is the water beneath you, the activity is super safe. It’s also a popular water sport for kids too! You can add this thrilling yet exhilarating activity to your Maldives travel package. 
6. Have unlimited fun on a banana boat ride with your group: Banana boat rides have become a new adventure sport in the Maldives. If you are looking at the possibility of doing some water sports while on holiday to the Maldives, banana boat riding is something you should include in your Maldives resorts holiday packages.  In all resorts there is a banana boat riding facility – you have to just walk into a booth and ask for a ride. The price may vary from resort to resort. 
7. Parasailing above the Indian Ocean: Parasailing has been spreading rapidly in recent years; it attracts those who dream to fly above the Indian Ocean in the Maldives when on holidays in this beautiful archipelago nation. The feeling of the wind against your body, standing atop a massive board as it cuts through the calm waters of the Indian Ocean is an exhilarating experience. There’s a special kind of serenity about it that one doesn’t get from other adrenaline sports. 
8. Head for a romantic escape at Hurawalhi Island Resort: One of the best romantic islands resorts in the Maldives, Hurawalhi Island is a perfect place to relish a variety of cuisines while catching sights of underwater beauty. Aboard a Dhoni boat, you can cross to this exquisite island where your drinks will be waiting for you along with the sounds of waves, birds and breezes. There is also an enchanting lagoon pool at low tide to drift around in or a romantic candle-lit dinner on the white sands of an island beach.
9. Witness dolphins playing and swimming off the coast: Spotting dolphins in the Maldives is definitely easier. There are different species of dolphins in the Maldives, but the most seen one is a Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus). Bottle-nosed dolphins are the most popular cetaceans among tourists as they can be seen very close to the shore and in shallow water, i.e., you don’t need to be a scuba diver or snorkeler. With water and sky so clear, you can spot sea creatures at a closer distance than usual.
10. Have a private lunch in an overwater bungalow: The Maldives is an exotic island nation with the best hospitality and services. The private overwater bungalows, the food, staff and service will make you feel like a king or queen. Must experience this one in life and do not forget to include a private island resort in your Maldives tour package 3 days 2 nights. Plus, it doesn’t get any more luxurious than the Six Senses Laamu or the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. 

Popular Beaches In The Maldives 

• Hulhumale Beach, Male’ – The Most Iconic: A haven from the harsh realities of the world, Hulhumale Beach is one of the most iconic and beautiful beaches in the Maldives. Its gorgeous white sands and crystal clear waters make for one of the most beautiful tropical resort getaways on Earth. Make your dream vacation come true by including Hulhumale beach in your Maldives island travel package. 
• Bikini Beach, Rasdhoo – An island retreat: Bikini Beach in the Maldives is one of the perfect beach destinations that is located on an island in Ari Atoll. Mostly known for its white sands, palm trees, crystal clear waters, Bikini Beach is an excellent place to swim around, snorkel, and build sandcastles while enjoying the sun. You may even hop on a speedboat or ferry straight from the capital of Maldives to reach Bikini Beach. It might cost you on an hourly basis from USD 35 to USD 40. 
• Reethi Beach, Fonimagoodhoo – Breathtakingly beautiful: Lies in the Baa Atoll, Reethi Beach is mostly known for its tropical beauty surrounded by coconut palms, blue waters and coral sand. This private beach is one of the best white beaches in the Maldives that will make the trip memorable for life. Check Maldives tour package price and must include a day trip to Reethi Beach with your partner. You can even rent out a beautiful villa overwaters and can enjoy your little exotic escape. 
• Fulhadhoo Beach – Find the Paradise: A peaceful getaway in the middle of tropical land where you can sit, soak the sun, swim, and forget about all the stress. If you are looking for a luxury island getaway, Fulhadhoo Beach is the perfect place to explore the beauty and serenity of the Maldives. This beach is usually accessed by guests who are looking for a blissful vacation. Check the Maldives tour package cost and add Fulhadhoo beach island to your day trip. 
• Lily Beach, Huvahendhoo – Far-away island paradises: Located at Huvahendhoo island, Lily beach is dotted with coconut trees, which provide shade for those who want to feel the sun on their skin without having to worry about getting burned. The water surrounding Lily Beach is crystal clear and perfect for exploring by snorkelling or scuba diving. If you’re looking for relaxation, this beach will keep you coming back time after time! Check your Maldives tour package cost from India and escape from reality. 
• Velingandu Island Beach – The Perfect Vacation Spot: Located in the North Ari Atoll, Veligandu Island Beach is an ideal place to swim with turtles or go diving to see sea life up close under the water’s surface. When people talk about this place, they often describe its gorgeous white sands, warm blue waters, and lush green vegetation. It is one of those rare places where luxury and simplicity are not mutually exclusive. Including Velingandu Beach in your travel packages from India to Maldives will land you amazing experiences. 
• Cocoa Male’ Island, Makunufushi – An Ideal Dream Location: Cocoa Island is one such beach that offers picture-perfect views with pristine waters that look like they were taken from a postcard!  The island offers a private beach, which makes it the perfect place to relax and enjoy some time out on its pristine shores. It is located in South Male Atoll, close to Maamigili Island by boat or seaplane from Male International Airport. It’s also possible to take a helicopter straight there!

Other Popular Beaches In Maldives

• Vabbinfaru Island Beaches
• Nika Island Beaches
• Baros Maldives
• Bandos Maldives
• Taj Exotica Beach
• Mirihi Island Beach
• Four Seasons Beach
• Kurumba Beach
• Sun Island Beaches
• Fihalhohi Island Beach
• Bioluminescent Beaches
• Dhigurah Beach 
• Artificial Beach
• Rasfannu Beach
• Bodu Mora
• Kunburudhoo Beach

Popular Restaurants/Cafe’s To Visit In Maldives 

• Ithaa Undersea Restaurant: An alluring venue to relish on best cuisines and beverages under the sea, Ithaa Undersea Restaurant is located at Conrad Maldives Island. Find the finest quality of European dishes, vegan food, seafood delicacies, Greek-style food, junk deep-fried, gluten-free and much more.
  Cost Per Head – Approx $320 for dinner &  $238 for lunch.
• Jazz Cafe: Not just known for the spectacular views and resorts, Maldives is also known for its delicacies and mouthwatering desserts, Jazz Cafe is another beautiful cafe in the Maldives to relish on freshly-bakes cakes, pastries, European food, and refreshing beverages. Plus, the live music at the back will win your heart.
  Cost Per Head – Approx $32 per head
• Seagull Cafe: Located in the island capital, Seagull Cafe is all about yummy gelato in a variety of flavours, American burgers & fried, Tuscan shrimp, and classical British-style fish, The place offers beachfront dining and has a vibrant aura with a super delectable menu to enjoy in the middle of Maldives islands.
  Cost Per Head – Approx $28
• Subsix: Another stunning undersea restaurant, Subsix is located at the Huluwalu Island Beach nearby reef.  The place is worth dining in to savour their subaquatic lunch menu including super delectable lobster, warm Maldivian octopus served with delighted ravioli. Plus, the coconut ice cream as a dessert is definitely worth a visit.
  Cost Per Head – Approx $160 for a 3-course lunch
• Sea House Cafe: An exotic sea corner restaurant located in Boduthakurufaanu Mago serves a variety of special diets option from vegan food to halal and fresh seafood to gluten-free. It is an affordable restaurant with one of the best locations and a plethora of food options including a buffet.
  Cost Per Head – Approx $9 for a buffet

Other popular options to eat in Maldives include

• Minus Six Meters
• Thai Wok Restaurant
• Symphony Lagoon
• Sala Thai
• Kitchen
• Reethi Restaurant
• Belle Amie Bistro

Best Places To Shop In Maldives

• Majeedhee Magu Street Market: One of the famous shopping places in the Maldives, that offers a mix of varieties including garments, traditional accessories, and electronic gadgets. Majeedhee Magu street market is one of the oldest markets in the Maldives and you can shop reasonably without burning a hole in your pocket.
  Location: Majeedhee Magu, Male, Maldives
• Le Cute: An ideal place for people who like to shop well while spending less. Le Cute is a beautiful market where you can find trendy dresses, shirts, accessories, hats, watches, sunglasses, flip-flops and much more. This vibrant market is also known for its amazing collection of perfumes, herbal products and cosmetics.
  Location: Orchid Magu, Male, Maldives
• Male Local Market: Veggie lovers will be delighted by the Male Local Market, where a huge variety of fresh fruits, veggies, and spices are piled up for sale. And, not just veggies, you may also shop souvenirs, home decor stuff, flower vases, and other daily need items. Plus, do not forget to bargain here!
  Location: Male, Maldives
• Chaandhanee Magu: Are you looking for the best imported goods in the Maldives? Chaandhanee Magu offers a beautiful collection of local and foreign goods at the best prices. The place was also referred to as “Singapore Bazaar” as the most collection of imported goods is brought from Singapore city.
  Location: Male, Maldives
• Island Bazaar: An elegant and classy bazaar to bring Europe style products and handicrafts, Island bazaar is perfect for those obsessed with home decor. You can find an endless collection of cushions, bags, fridge magnets, flower vases, handlooms, macrame products, and authentic jewellery.
  Location: M.Karishma. Level 1, Fareedhee Magu, Male’, Maldives

Other Places To Shop In Maldives 

• Centro Mall
• Nala Boutique
• Angolo Souvenir Shop
• Oevaali Art Shop
• STO Trade Centre 

Affordable Souvenirs To Buy In Maldives

• Thundu Kunaa (handmade mat): Hand-woven mats that are very beautifully crafted by local artisans, Thundu Kunaa is one of the famous handicrafts in the Maldives. This craft is mostly adopted by the people from Southern Atolls in the Maldives. These authentic mats are made from local reeds which are plucked, washed and dried in sun. Thundu Kunaa can hold a great memory of Maldives after your trip.
• Maldivian Sarongs:Perfect clothing piece for beach lovers, Maldivian Sarongs comes in beautiful tropical prints with bright and lovely colours. There are several ways to style Maldivian Sarongs from scarf to skirt, and headband to top. These are super affordable and can be brought in a price range of $2 to $20. Maldivian Sarongs can also be used as a bag accessory.
• Natural Skin Oils: Besides stunning views and amazing island vacations, this tropical land also takes care of your skin. Here locals believe in pampering their skin with freshly squeezed oil from coconuts for the forever glowing skin. These virgin coconut oils are a must to buy on your trip to the Maldives for yourself or your friends back home. This can be used for cooking, body moisturizing and hair. 
• Coco Items: Fascinating bowls made of coconut skins are a must-buy on your island trip to the Maldives. The STO trade Centre at the Maafushi islands has the best collection of trendy utility items. You can shop beautiful coconut baskets, wall hangings, vases, bowls, crockery, shells and much more. These items can be brought at super cheap prices starting from $1.

Other Gifts/Souvenirs To Buy On Your Island Trip

• Lacquer Work
• Authentic Jewellery Items
• Artworks and Paintings
• Packaged fish
• Fridge Magnets
• Jute Accessories
• Dhonis
• Wicker Mats

Local Dishes To Try In Maldives

• Maldivian Biryani: Also known as Kaliya Birinji, Maldivian Biryani is a traditional dish made with rice and chicken. The aromatic flavour of spices, soft and juicy chicken, and well-cooked rice can pamper your flavour really well. Maldivian Biryani was once savoured by Kings and Queens in this tropical land. 
• Garudhiya: One of the famous dishes of Maldivian cuisines, Garudhiya is made from the fillet of tuna, lime, chillies, sliced onion, curry leaves, and spices. The dish is served with cooked rice or can be even served as a soup. The fragrance and taste of Garudhiya are surely going to make your gut happy. 
• Bis Keemiya: Tastes similar to the spring roll, Bis Keemiya is an appetising snack that is usually deep-fried or baked. It is filled with tuna, hard-boiled eggs, sauteed cabbage and onions. It is a perfect snack to have with a refreshing cocktail or a cup of tea or coffee.
• Boshi Mashuni: Also known as Banana Flower Salad, Boshi Mashuni is an exotic blend of fresh coconut cream, crunchy and dried banana flowers. The mix of spices and lime leaves a tangy flavour.  It’s a healthy salad with a beautiful twist of lime juice, onion, sweet coconut, and chillis. 
• Mas Huni: Also known as Disc Mashuni, it comes in a list of traditional Maldivian breakfasts that include Naan (flatbread, most commonly oven-baked or Tawa-fried), and tuna salad. The tuna salad is a blend of minced coconuts, tuna, spices, curry leaf, and onion. The combination of tuna salad and naan is just heavenly. 
• Saagu Bondibai: A delightful Maldivian recipe to pamper your tastebuds, Saagu Bondibai is made using Sago (similar to Sabudana), coconut milk, rose water, cardamom, condensed milk, and pandan leaves. It is like a sweet pudding that you can have in dessert after Mas Roshi or other snacks.

Maldives Visa Requirements For Indians 

For all Indian citizens, Maldives provides Tourist Visa on the arrival at the Male’ International Airport. Indian nationals do not require a pre-arrival visa to take flights to the Maldives. All Indian citizens need to take care is of other travel documents including a valid passport, confirmed flight tickets and hotel reservations. However, the arrival visa is only valid for 30 days. To increase your stay, a written application to the Department of Immigration should be submitted 2 to 5 days before your visa expiry date. 

Book Cheap Tour Packages To Maldives From India

Are you on the lookout for affordable travel packages from India to Maldives? ASAP Holidays is the best solution to cater for your travel needs. Our travel agents help you choose the best deals and offers to make your holiday packages and hotel packages affordable. Whether you are looking for 6-7 nights vacation packages or just a little escape for 2 days, our travel agency can help you tailor Maldives tour package paradise island, just the way you want.

Our Maldives Vacations and Honeymoons

The Maldives is one of the world’s most beautiful island destinations, dotting the Indian Ocean like a natural string of pearls.

Located off the south-west coast of India, the Maldives consists of around 1200 atolls (islands) and there over 100 secluded private island resorts to choose from. Resorts are accessed by a short, scenic seaplane or speedboat ride from the capital, Male, the country’s primary gateway. The Maldives is also the world’s lowest country, located on top of a vast underwater mountain range. 

Asap Holidays offers a variety of Maldives vacation packages. If you are looking for a romantic escape, a relaxing vacation with access to a world-class spa, or a family vacation, this is the place. But this is also a country well suited to the more active type of traveller. Imagine adding windsurfing or a dive with whale sharks to your honeymoon memories!

Why choose a Maldives vacation?

The first thing that will strike you about the Maldives is their exceptional natural beauty. It’s not surprising that honeymooners and those seeking a glamorous tropical getaway have long had the country at the top of their wish lists. Beyond the five and six-star resorts, some Maldives hotels cater to families, to water sports enthusiasts looking for great diving, snorkeling, sailing, and windsurfing, to those on a (relative) budget, or to anyone wanting a tranquil back-to-nature experience. In the Maldives, you can enjoy all of this or simply sit on the beach or the verandah of your hotel with a cocktail in your hand, watching the glorious sunsets for which the Maldives is famous. Another attraction is the fresh seafood. Restaurants and hotels here have access to some of the freshest seafood you’ll ever try, all prepared according to that restaurant’s speciality.

Living Attractions in the Maldives

For divers, there are around 70 incredible dive sites to experience in the Maldives. The southern atolls are renowned for coral and lots of channels for spotting sharks and barracudas. The northern atolls have interesting reefs in shallower waters. The sea here is home to 1100 species of fish, five species of sea turtles, and 21 species of whales and dolphins. There are a number of wrecks dotted around where ships have floundered. Snorkeling is open to everyone who can swim.  

Unlocking the Maldives Overwater Bungalow

Accommodation is not simply a room on a Maldives vacation package. Imagine having an overwater bungalow on a pier jutting out from the shore with a glass floor, under which tropical fish are swimming. Some even offer a private plunge pool on the deck. There are also villas secluded in lush vegetation or situated above a lagoon. Maldives also makes a great wedding destination or a place to renew your vows or celebrate a wedding anniversary. Couples can have the ceremony anywhere they wish - some weddings have even been performed underwater.

For added variety, you can go snorkeling or diving on a different island. It is also possible to reserve a seaplane sightseeing flight and have a picnic.

So, why not lift your quality of life with a stay in this beautiful country on one of Asap Holidays  Maldives vacation packages?

Maldives Travel Information

At ASAP holidays we believe that a well-informed traveller is a safer traveller. With this in mind, we have compiled an easy to navigate travel information section dedicated to a Maldives vacation.

Learn about the history and culture of Maldives, the must-try food and drink, and what to pack in your suitcase. Read about Maldives's nature and wildlife, weather and geography, along with 'Country Quickfacts' compiled by our travel experts. Our globetrotting tips, as well as our visa and health information will help ensure you're properly prepared for a safe and enjoyable trip. The only way you could possibly learn more is by embarking on your journey and discovering Maldives for yourself. Start exploring… book one of our Maldives vacations today!

Planning a trip to Maldives. Take a look at our exciting Maldives tour packages that cover stay, meals and transfers. Choose from a wide range of handpicked itinerary for Maldives tour. Easily customize your Maldives packages as per your travel requirements. Plan your Maldives tour with ASAP Holidays and get the unbeatable deals at best prices.

About Maldives:

Known for its pristine waters, white sandy beaches and over-water luxury resorts, Maldives is a famous Island country having about 1180 islands, out of which only 200 are inhabitants. The Maldives have a large number of luxury accommodations including spa resorts, lagoons, overwater bungalows, and beach facing villas. As cool as it sounds above water, Maldives is equally exciting underwater, due to its vibrant corals and wonderful marine presence that consists of Sharks, Manta ray, Sea Turtle, Dolphin, Stingray, Lion fish and many more.

Best Selling Maldives Tour Packages:

Book from a wide range of Maldives holidays package. And explore the charm of Maldives. With ASAP Holidays, you get the best deals for Maldives packages inclusive of stay, transfers, and meals. Also, you can add a lot of breathtaking adventures from water sports and sky diving in your Maldives travel package. Our travel aficionados have curated a long list of the best possible itineraries for a Maldives vacation. So even if you’re looking for a quick escape to Maldives, you can browse Maldives tour packages for 3 nights and 4 days. And if your aim is to get relaxed and spend a good leisure time, we have 5 nights 6 days Maldives tour packages. Our prices for Maldives packages starts from 50,782 per person only. So get in touch and book yourself a trip to Maldives.

Affordable Maldives Holiday Packages:

The affordable Maldives packages include some of the best budget hotels, transfers and meals. There are many Islands in Maldives which have the best foods and are relatively affordable. If you’re on a budget constraint and looking for a trip in International destination then, cheap Maldives packages are an ideal choice for you.

Best Time To Visit Maldives:

December to April is considered the best time to visit the Maldives as this is the summer season in the Maldives. The season is quite popular among tourists to enjoy their holidays and honeymoon, making it a heavily crowded place, as the Maldives don’t face any rainfall during these months. Due to Christmas and New Year celebrations, December sees a massive sea of people here. Hotel rates are at a peak these days, so it is better to get an all-inclusive Maldives package. Also, you can enjoy your favourite water activities and sports till the last day of April. May to November is the monsoon season, and you’ll end up facing heavy rainfall. Hotels and resorts are usually less pricey during this season, but still, it is not recommended to visit in this season, as you will not get the best experience of Maldives. 

Best Places to visit in Maldives:

Majestic Islands, luxurious accommodations and unbeatable serenity makes Maldives worth visiting. The major attractions in the city are Maafushi Island, Grand Friday Mosque, Hukuru Miskiiy Mosque, National Museum, Artificial Beach, Alimatha Island, Sand Bank, Hulhumale central park along and Sinamale Bridge. But one obviously cannot cover all these places in a go, so take a look at top places to visit in Maldives. 

1. Male City: The capital city, Male, is the tourist hub of Maldives. The city has restaurants, cafes, shops, offices, and mosques. It is also the biggest city in the country. Tsunami Monument, Sultan Park, National Museum and Victory monument are some of the major attractions in the city.
2. Maafushi Island: With the pristine waters, majestic beaches, and beautiful landscapes, Maafushi Island is the most famous Island in the Maldives. One can try various adventure sports such as scuba diving, snorkeling, etc or go shark diving. Also, Maafushi enjoys authentic Maldivian Food. It is worth visiting on your Maldives trip.
3. Grand Friday Mosque: This famous mosque is situated in the heart of Male city. If you’re in Male city, you must visit this architectural wonder. Also, get to know about many unknown things at this main Islamic center about the religion and how it is practiced here.
4. Sinamale Bridge: This is a landmark bridge connecting Male and Hulhumale Islands or Maldives International Airport. To see this beautiful place, take a can to Male city. You will get to see a broad view of the beautiful ocean from here.
5. National Museum: If you get excited about history, you should not miss visiting the National Museum in the Maldives. Also, you can have a look at the items, including displaying weaponry and religious relics engraved in Arabic and Thaana.
6. Artificial Beach: The beautiful man-made beach attracts a massive wave of the young crowd. One can spot sharks here at the renowned Shark Point. Also, visit some famous places near artificial beaches, including Manta Point, Massimo Thila, and Kani Corner.
7. Bioluminescent Beach: Another famous attractions to visit in your Maldives tour is Bioluminescent Beach on Vadhoo Island, also known as the glowing beach. You will be stunned to see this beautiful sea of stars. You cannot miss having a look at this stunning view. There are more than 27 famous beaches here. Bioluminescent Beach, Hulhumale beach, Artificial Beach, and Kurumba Beach are some.

We covers these top places in our Maldives packages. So book a Maldives tour and make the most out of Maldives.

Things to do in your Maldives Trip:

There are many exciting things you do in your trip to Maldives, be it enjoying and exploring your resort, soaking the sun on the beaches, exploring Maldives, trying different cuisines, or indulge in exciting water activities.

1. Watersports:You can definitely look forward to experiencing water sports on your Maldives trip. You can try scuba diving, snorkeling, jet skiing, etc. Scuba Diving in Maldives would be a heavenly experience for you. You will get a chance to explore marine life through the crystal clear blue waters, having a sight of magnificent reefs and other creatures. 
2. Dolphin Watching: Dolphin Cruise Excursions are quite popular among the tourists. Your Maldives Tour would be incomplete without this short trip. You will catch a sight of cute dolphins playing in the ocean, leaving you feeling joyed. 
3. Island Hopping:Island Hopping will give you a chance to explore Maldives closely and locally. You can have a look at the local people, their lifestyle, communities, and more. You will end up knowing about this place closely and other than the lavish resorts/hotels.
4. Trying out cuisines:You can try different famous cuisines in Maldives. Don’t forget to try out the famous authentic Maldivian Cuisine. Try out on the Maldivian Lobster, Champagne Barbeque, A wide variety of meats and more. You can also explore the local markets and try the local food all by yourself.
5. Romantic dinner: If you’re a couple visiting Maldives for vacation, don’t miss a chance to enjoy a romantic candle light dinner on the beautiful beaches of Maldives. This will be a memorable experience for you to have a romantic time under the beautiful skies of Maldives.
6. Skydiving in Maldives:One of the best things to do in your Maldives trip is to go for Skydiving. Imagine a jump from a height of 10,000 feet at a speed of over 120mph, is what Skydiving in Maldives brings for you. Feel the adrenaline rushing all through your body during this exciting activity.
7. Fishing : One can try fishing in Maldives, if you have a spot for fishing. You will be having a great time hunting on the famous Tuna Fish here. You can either go with a local or can go on a regular fish expedition. You should choose according to your preference. 

The best thing is you can add any of these activities in your Maldives trip package and get yourselves a customized holiday trip.

How To Reach Maldives:

The only way to reach Maldives is by Air. Male International Airport is the main and largest airport in Maldives. For international flights, you need to travel to either the male international airport on Male Island or the Gan Airport in Addu City. These airports connect with most of the south-east Asian countries. You can also travel via domestic flights, their airports are Hanimaadhoo Airport, Kaadedhdhoo Airport, and Kadhdhoo Airport. You can easily travel to this country, without worrying about a visa. Maldives offers you 30 days on arrival visa which can be extended upto 90 days further for some specific reasons.

Maldives Tour Packages

The Maldives is a breathtaking tourist destination with white sand beaches, turquoise oceans, magnificent islands, and awe-inspiring marine life. It attracts all sorts of tourists, including solitary travelers, honeymooners, and families, who want to enjoy a relaxing holiday amidst the enormous Indian Ocean. With so many alternatives and so little time, deciding what to do and what to avoid becomes a difficult issue. As a result, here's a customized travel plan for your next trip to the Maldives, with Maldives honeymoon package, Maldives tour packages and Maldives holiday packages for a stress-free and relaxing vacation.

Best Time To Visit Maldives:

Because of the two monsoon seasons, the weather in the Maldives is highly changeable. The first part of the month sees a lot of rain, making it the second rainiest month of the year. The end of December is mostly dry, with warm and pleasant days. Because there is little or no rain in December, most visitors visit the Maldives near the end of the month to enjoy Christmas and New Year's. And you can too, with Asap Holidays Maldives holiday packages!

The weather in the Maldives is partially rainy and partly dry since it signals the conclusion of the Southwest monsoons and the start of a significantly dry season; it is also the cheapest time to visit the Maldives. Because most rain falls in the early part of the month, people choose to visit the Maldives in December at the end of the month when the weather is dry and there is less possibility of rain, making touring even more exciting and undemanding. And which is why, we recommend you to take your trip during the month of December too!

How To Reach Maldives:

Maldives, being a popular tourist destination, is accessible by plane to all major countries and has an excellent Maldives tour package for couple. The majority of airlines travel to and from Male International Airport to all major destinations across the world. Traveling by plane is also the quickest and most cost-effective option to visit the Maldives. It is suggested that you purchase your flight tickets early to avoid higher costs and ticket availability for your trip to the Maldives in December as opposed to the Maldives in November with exciting offers on Maldives honeymoon package & Maldives tour packages.

What should you consider when preparing a budget for Maldives?

All the main factors like accommodation, local transfers, meals, sightseeing, shopping, and other expenses should be considered for arriving at an estimated budget for an exquisite vacation in Maldives. And you needn’t worry, for our Maldives tour take care of everything shopping too!

Best Places To Visit In Maldives:

Here is a list of some of the best places to visit in the Maldives. So, if you are planning a vacation to this country during this time then do not forget to explore these places.

1. Male Island

Male, the Maldives' most thriving island and capital city, is one of the greatest destinations to visit in Maldives. Despite being a miniature island, Male is the Maldives' most populated city and economic center, with several attractions such as the Grand Friday Mosque, National Museum, and a well-known fish market.

2. Meeru Island

Meeru Island, located in the North Male Atoll, is one of the Maldives' most populous islands. Meeru Island, surrounded by palm trees and boasting ultramarine lagoons, beautiful sandy beaches, crystal clear seas, and vivid reefs, is one of the greatest spots to visit in the Maldives. Or you can do so by booking our and Maldives holiday packages and Maldives tour package for couple.    

3. Biyadhoo Island

Do not miss out on exploring Biyadhoo Island, which is a haven for divers and watersports enthusiasts. This Taj Group India-managed resort island in the Kaafu Atoll is a natural wealth with its rich flora, beautiful seas, abundant diving locations, and colorful corals.

4. Alimatha Island

Alimatha Island is well-known for its extensive marine life and scuba diving. This little island on the eastern coast of the Maldives is endowed with white powdery beaches, turquoise seas, and luxurious hotels, making it a popular spot to explore during your trip to the Maldives with our Maldives packages.

5. Vaadhoo Island

During your trip to the Maldives, see the hypnotic activity of phytoplanktons on the island of Vaadhoo, located in the Raa Atoll. This island is especially well-known for its stunning sea of stars, which glows vividly at night owing to a chemical process known as bioluminescence. You can also experience this with our Maldives packages for couple.

Top Things To Do In Maldives:

Looking for some fun activities to do in Maldives? Well, there is no dearth of things to do in this country. So, get ready to explore this place like never before by opting for a Maldives tour and our Maldives packages.

1. Dive Into The Azure Waters At Banana Reef

Dive into the brilliant blue waters of the Banana Reef, one of the top diving destinations in the world, during your holiday to the Maldives with our Maldives packages. It was the Maldives' first official diving location, featuring beautiful marine life, exciting cliffs, overhangs, caverns, and enormous reefs.

2. Spectate The Aquatic Life By Snorkeling

If diving isn't your thing or you're afraid of going underwater, try snorkeling instead. Pack all necessary equipment and prepare to float on the surface of the Maldives' azure seas, observing the rich and plentiful aquatic life during your trip to the Maldives with our Maldives packages.

3. Sail On The Pristine Lagoons Of Maldives

While snorkeling and diving are the most well-known water activities in the Maldives, wind and kite surfing are also among the top things to do in the Maldives. During your journey, don't miss out on the unparalleled experience of surfing and fun boarding at some of the top resorts including Baros, Meedhupparu, and others.

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4. Rejuvenate With Relaxing Spa Sessions

During your trip, spend some time at wellness facilities to enjoy various sorts of massage therapies that will revive your body. To rejuvenate during your vacation to the Maldives, choose from a choice of therapies such as ayurveda, Swedish massage, Maldivian spa, reflexology, and many more that are also offered within our Maldives packages for couple and Maldives tour package for couple.

5. Peep Into The Historical Past Of Maldives

During your trip to the Maldives, visit the National Museum to learn about the island country's history with our Maldives tour. This museum, housed in the Maldivian Royal Palace, has a variety of archeological items, Buddha heads, royal sunshades and furnishings, clothes and shoes, coins, jewelry, guns and armor, and many other historical artifacts.

Must-Have Experiences In Maldives:

While planning a vacation to any new place, we try to include the must-experiences in our itinerary so that we don’t miss out on the best things to do. So, here is a list of must-have experiences in Maldives that you cannot afford to miss.

1. Dhoni Cruise

During your trip to the Maldives, take a traditional Dhoni sunset boat to see the beautiful sunset views over the Maldivian Horizon. This hour-long cruise voyage in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean also allows you to see hundreds of dolphins spinning about in the water.

2. Whale Submarine

If you want to see the country's aquatic biodiversity without getting wet during your trip to the Maldives, take this amazing submarine journey. This Whale Submarine dives every 90 minutes, allowing visitors to see the spectacular aquatic life that flourishes in the Maldives' turquoise seas.

3. Fishing

Fishing is one of the Maldivian economy's most significant industries. As a result, fishing and catching your meals during your trip to the Maldives is a must-do. The Maldives is a fishing lover's heaven, with a teeming aquatic life spread across 1,192 coral islands.

Best Hotels In Maldives:

Looking for luxurious stays in Maldives? Well, we have handpicked some of the best hotels in the country that you can retreat to in the Maldives for a cozy and comfortable stay.

1. Jumeirah Vittaveli Maldives

The Jumeirah Vittaveli, located in Male, provides unrivaled luxury as well as breathtaking views of the ocean. During your stay in the Maldives, wake up to the sight of the sun rising from behind the palm trees and enjoy world-class amenities such as a swimming pool, spa center, and a private beach.

Address: South Male Atoll, Maldives

2. Paradise Island Resort

Paradise Island, located in a serene location on Lankanfinolhu Island, genuinely provides a paradisiacal stay during your trip to the Maldives. Enjoy a relaxing stay at this 4-star facility, which features spacious accommodations as well as amenities such as a swimming pool, multi-cuisine restaurants, spa centers, and more.

Address: Lankanfinolhu, Male City, Maldives

3. Biyadhoo Island Resort

This resort is located on Biyadhoo Island, just a short distance from the beach. It is one of the most affordable resorts for your trip to the Maldives, offering modern rooms with wooden furniture and a plethora of services such as a restaurant, bar, spa center, and an exciting diving experience.

Address: Biyadhoo, South Male Atoll, Maldives

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Best Restaurants In Maldives:

Hungry and want to satiate your hunger at one of the top restaurants in Maldives? With no dearth of options for dining, here is a list of some of the top eateries that you must resort to.

1. Ithaa Underwater Aquarium Restaurant

During your trip to the Maldives, treat your taste buds to excellent European food at this award-winning restaurant on Conrad Rangali Island. This restaurant, located 16 feet below sea level, not only serves wonderful food but also provides panoramic views of the beautiful corals that surround it. Perfect for a romantic dinner. Get it with our Maldives packages, Maldives tour packages and Maldives packages for couple.

Must Try: Reef Lobster, and Carabineros Prawn

Location: Conrad Rangali Island

Timings: 11 AM 2:30 PM, 6:3010:30 PM

Cuisine: European

2. Baraabaru Restaurant

If you want to satisfy your hunger for Indian food while visiting the Maldives, go to Baraabaru Restaurant at Four Seasons Resort. This restaurant delivers lip-smacking Indian dishes in a refreshing marine setting, with a classic Indian decor influenced by Kerala architecture.

Must Try: Maldivian Chili, and Lamb Chops

Location: North, Kuda Huraa

Timings: 7-10:30 PM

Cuisine: Indian

3. Reef Club Restaurant

At Four's Reef Club Restaurant, savor the flavor of traditional Italian food while overlooking the ocean. Dine at this restaurant to satiate your craving for Italian food during your holiday in the Maldives. The restaurant also has an outside seating area for a romantic date with your better half in the midst of the ocean.

Must Try: Tortellini, and Grilled Fish

Location: North, Kuda Huraa

Timings: 11:30 AM4 PM, 710:30 PM

Cuisine: Italian

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With 99% ocean and 1% land, the Republic of Maldives, an island country, is situated in the Indian Ocean. One can say it is an absolute treasure, the Maldives offers guests an adventure like no other. Clear turquoise waters, crystalline white seashores with beautiful palms around and the most differing and magical atmosphere.

The Maldives is one of the most famous travel destinations on the planet and with completely flawless tropical encompasses, magnificent seashores, dazzling all year climate, selective island resorts and welcoming, warm waters that are home to an abundance of energetic marine life, it's not hard to perceive any reason why. Also, best of all, this exciting and exceptionally one of a kind destination can be explored with the best Maldives package from India.

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Planning a Maldives holiday? Asapholidays is your go-to place. We craft tailor-made international holidays and let travellers discover the beauty of the destination at their own pace. Suiting all kinds of travel interests and preferences, you will find appropriate Maldives tour packages here at Asapholidays.

Be it a romantic Maldives package for couples or a guided Maldives package for the elderly. Be it refreshing Maldives tour packages from India for travellers of all ages or Maldives tour packages to break-free, Asapholidays can help you chalk out a best Maldives package from India that will give you utmost satisfaction and a memorable Maldives holiday experience.

We curate tour packages that take into account intricate details and craft Maldives tour packages that makes your Maldives trip experience more than a vacation. Check out our amazing Maldives holiday packages from India that let you discover the best of the Maldives and make your Maldives vacation a happy one.

Types of Maldives package

In a Private Island

You can either straight away go to a private island and enjoy all the benefits and customisation for yourself. Right from the seaplane transfer to the kind of villa you will be needing, you can choose it by yourself. Sit on a water villa and be pleased by the surplus drinks while not forgetting to indulge yourself in activities. But this turns out to be a costly game.

In an Inhabited Island

The other option for you is to travel to an inhabited island and stay in a hotel. These hotels will either have a garden villa or beach villa, inexhaustible activities like snorkelling, dolphin watching, sand bank tour and everything else in the packages made just for you. You will not be able to stay in the iconic water villa. Also, you will not get the chance to enjoy drinks except in the floating bar. In such cases, you could ask your hotel to arrange for resort day tour package which includes your transfers, lunch, unlimited alcohols and activities specified by the resorts. In these cases, you will be able to enjoy the benefits of both the hotels and resort. But you will not be able to enjoy every water activity you had in your mind since it becomes resort specific. Hence, it is highly recommended for you to choose Maldives all inclusive package.

Maldives Tour Highlights

• Enjoy an unrivalled luxury in the beach resort.
• Taste the essence of undramatic Maldives nature.
• Saturate your love for turquoise blue waters by floating in Maldives water all day.
• Live through an exotic spa experience in your favourite high end resort.
• Entitle a gala night dinner on special occasions like Christmas and New year on the unspoiled Maldivian sands.
• Let your camera lens seize your favourite Maldivian moments.
• Appreciate the beauty of Maldives from the Eagle’s view while flying in your seaplane to reach your favourite resort.
• Witness the breathtaking sunrises and promising sunsets above the Maldivian waters and mark your vacation days on a high note.
• Enjoy a full board or all inclusive meal at your favourite resort.
• From surfing to scuba diving, go wild scaling every layer of your favourite blue waters.

Best Maldives Islands and Things to do in Maldives

• Malé - Luxury redefined with major attractions being Grand Friday Mosque and Tsunami Monument. A must see destination in the Maldives during your Maldives holidays.
• Vaadhoo Island - Relax by the bioluminescent sea of stars at night for a mystical surprise.
• Mirihi - Spotting sharks and completing rejuvenating yourself in this small island with the first-ever island in the Maldives with overwater bungalows on your Maldives vacation.
• Baros Island - Snorkelling in the azure waters and fine dining.
• Hulhumalé Island - Hulhumale Beach, Snorkelling, Scuba diving, other watersports, and Hulhumale Central Park are also other must visit places on your Maldives holidays.
• Biyadhoo Island - Windsurfing and snorkeling in the clear waters, feasting on delectable seafood and indulging in soothing massages.
• Fihalhohi - A romantic walk by the beach shaded by coconut palm trees and rejuvenating spa sessions.
• Maafushi Island - Snorkelling and scenic catamaran rides and gazing at the sparkling ocean waters.
• Milaidhoo Island - Scuba diving, snorkeling and relaxing by the crystal clear waters with extremely white sandy beaches.
• Kuredu - Aircraft ride over the ocean, watching the sun setting into the ocean and dining at an underwater restaurant are some of the best activities to do on Maldives holidays.

Best places to visit in Maldives

1. Male 

This small-sized Maldivian capital is a trade beat of the country which has a great deal to offer to its sightseers. Away from a retreat's infinity pool and succulent smorgasbord, Male gives you the most genuine experience in the Maldives. Encompassed fearlessly with turquoise waters, it is the driving soul of the entire nation. One of the world's littlest national capitals, Male is known for its antiquated mosque and bright structures. With its magnificence and progressiveness being discussed the island today has developed into one of the most visited sites in the Maldives. It is an easygoing town for meandering without pre-arranged schedules. With legacy structures from one perspective and trees and waters with inviting shades on the other, Male is an unquestionably required visit during your vacation to the Maldives.

Climate - 30-degree celsius

2. National Museum, Maldives

The National Museum of Maldives is an old structure containing a very much kept up assortment of ancient rarities that help in following abnormal chronicled occasions of this archipelago. It targets imparting devoted sentiments to the residents of Maldives. The historical center has a gigantic collection of imperial relics extending from the Buddhist and Islamic time making it a heaven for the admirers of history and artworks. From different outfits and adornments of the previous lords and the sovereigns, fabric, and paper original copies, and anthropological items to arms and defensive layers, you will discover everything under one rooftop. The array of antiquities is an impression of the nation's prized legacy.

Climate - 30-degree celsius

Timing - 10 AM to 4 PM

3. Banana Reef

Banana Reef, probably the most established reef found in the Maldives is embellished with dazzling caverns, glorious bluffs, wonderful coral developments, and incredible shades. Banana Reef is additionally populated by sharks, barracudas, and groupers, making Banana Reef one of the world's most famous jump destinations. The quiet and amicable flows combined with extraordinary perceivability demonstrate to work truly well for first-time jumpers, students and amateurs to consider making the plunge with. It is likewise a significantly helpful choice for master and experienced jumpers since it permits them to go further and investigate the clear world underneath the outside of the waters better. This is the best spot you can visit in your Maldives holiday from India.

Activities - Scuba plunging, Snorkeling

4. Fulhadhoo island

The little island of Fulhadhoo situated in the southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll and two hours from the capital city of Male is genuinely uninhabited and is one of the most shocking islands in the Indian Ocean. The Fulhadhoo island is all that you would plan to see and experience when booking an excursion to the Maldives. With under 250 individuals living in a little town on the west side of this island, the spot is fundamentally uninhabited and out and out of heaven. For individuals searching for a day from city life, the peaceful climate of this island is the ideal spot to kick back and unwind.

Attraction - White sandy beach, palm trees, completely clear blue water

5. Majeedhee Magu

Maldives busiest road and heaven for shopaholics, Majeedhee Magu, is the most popular road advertised in the Male. The Maldives has the best shops giving everything from beauty care products, handlooms, and adornments to electronic things. Inside the bunch of neighborhoods creates Islamic fragrance is the material, which is the star result of this Maldivian showcase.

At Majeedhee Magu, one can without much of a stretch detect the conventional Maldives' dress known as libaas. The cool vibes of the place, the Majeedhee Magu showcase the best Maldivian way of life. This bustling business sector with the greatest number of vehicles and individuals in the Maldives is likewise well known for the wide assortment of fish at a bargain, be it dried fish chips, canned fish or smoked fish. 

How to reach Maldives?

Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, famously known as Male Velana International Airport (MLE) is the main air terminal, which interfaces the Maldives to every significant nation in South-East Asia including India, China, and Sri Lanka. There are additionally non-stop flights from Dubai, and sanctioned flights working from Europe, China, and Singapore. In some Maldives packages, flight tickets are already included.

Domestic flights, seaplanes, and ship pontoon administrations can get you to your goal resort island or lodgings. Gan International Airport situated on Gan island in Addu City is the door toward the southern piece of the nation. Universal contract flights and personal jets visit this air terminal to arrive at nearby resorts.

Best time to visit the Maldives

The Maldives has the best seashores with the tropical islands. From December-April, the climate is sunny and it’s a drought, 'Iruvai', From may-November, it is not an ideal season to visit the Maldives as it is a wet spell, ‘Hulhangu’. There is an insignificant change in temperature in the midst of the two seasons.

The best time to visit Maldives is from December to April. The dry season is described by the brilliant sun, clear skies, quiet ocean and just sporadic precipitation now and again, subsequently making it the perfect time for sunbathing, scuba plunging and swimming. This time will, in general, be moderately increasingly costly attributable to the top season.

When it comes to exploring the serene beauty in the world, Maldives is unable to forget. Famous beaches like Hulhumale beach, Reethi Beach, Bikini beach and many more attract tourists from all over the world. The best Maldives destinations are included in our Maldives tour packages.

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With a myriad of things to see and experience, where do you even start? Leave the worries to us. Our state of the art itineraries for Maldives packages are specifically made for you and are the best you can find. Right from flights, luxurious resorts, delectable food to pristine underwaters, we come up with perfect Maldives packages crafted based entirely on your interests to make sure you have a magical time with your better half or family and friends, whoever you choose to travel with.

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What are the best all-inclusive resort deals in the Maldives?

Some of the choicest all-inclusive resorts in the Maldives for your Maldives vacation are:

• Reethi Faru - 2N In Deluxe Beach Villa & 2N In Water Villa - Full Board(Recent Deal)
• Brennia Kottefaru : 2N Beach Villa + 2N Water Villa - Free RT-PCR Test For 2 Adults - Full Board(New Resort)
• Furaveri Maldives Resort: 2N Beach Villa+ 2N Water Villa(Recommended)
• Coco Bodu Hithi Resort Maldives(Best Selling)
• RIU Atoll - 2N Beach Room + 2N Overwater Junior Suite with Domestic Transfers(Recommended)

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What is IMUGA form?

Travellers travelling to and from Maldives should fill an online self-declaration health form within 24 hours before departure. And this online self-declaration heath form is called the IMUGA form. All travellers including visa holders, Maldivians and tourists are required to submit this traveller health declaration form.

What is IMUGA full form?

Maldives Immigration is the full form of IMUGA.

What are the steps to fill IMUGA immigration form?

Here are the steps to fill IMUGA immigration form - health declaration form

1. Visit imuga.immigration.gov.mv
2. Select traveller health declaration
3. Fill in all your personal information
4. Make sure you upload a good quality picture of yourself.
5. Select your place of stay
6. Input all your health information
7. Fill in the baggage details and click submit.

With this, the Imuga registration is completed.

Are there separate forms for arrival and departure?

Yes, the form has to be filled 24 hours prior to your arrival and departure. Fill in the Imuga immigration form and Imuga departure form accordingly.

Do I need a Maldives health declaration QR code?

Since vaccination certificates are not mandatory to enter the country, you will not need any Maldives health declaration QR code.

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) About Maldives Vacation

What is the ideal time to spend holidays in Maldives

Generally 3 nights and 4 days or 4 nights and 5 days is the ideal time to spend vacation in Maldives lazing in the luxury of your resort and discovering its pristine white beaches and clear waters.

How do you get to your resort in the Maldives?

Most resorts offer a speed boat transport from the airport to the resort. For resorts which are far off from the airport, they offer a domestic flight from the international airport to the domestic airport and then a speed boat transfer from the airport to the resort. Some other resorts offer an upgrade of a sea plane transfer, which is a very unique experience, although it is an expensive affair that costs about $200-300 per person.

What are the various meal plans available in Maldives?

In the meal plans available, the Half board meal plan is the most economical and pocket-friendly meal plan which includes breakfast and dinner. The other option is the Full board meal plan that is ideal for families with kids as all the meals are sorted in this plan. The last option is the all inclusive meal plan which is a perfect meal plan for alcohol lovers that provides unlimited access to alcohol.

What are the things to know before travelling to Maldives?

You cannot carry alcohol into Maldives. There is drinking water scarcity in Maldives, so spend water wisely. Your rooms will be replenished with only two water bottles in a day. While booking your Maldives tour Package, make sure your transfers are already booked, because if they are not, it gets very difficult to arrange for them later.

How does the visa process work for Maldives?

Travellers can enter Maldives with a valid passport. For Indians, it is free visa on arrival to Maldives on arrival at Male. All you need to do is just furnish the return flight ticket and hotel confirmation.

What are the best things to do in Maldives?

Maldives is famous for its watersports due to its amazing underwater visibility. Snorkelling, scuba diving and surfing are good sports that can be indulged in while on your Maldives vacation due to its exotic large variety of coral reefs and beautiful marine life. You can also directly take up excursions at your resort at your own expense while on your stay.

Where is Maldives located?

Located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, Maldives is located in the south west region of Sri Lanka. Maldives is the smallest country located in Asia in regard to size and population.

Is a passport required for Maldives?

Yes, a valid passport is required to visit Maldives. A passport which is valid for 6 months minimum is required for all nationalities to visit Maldives while a 30 day tourist visa is issued on arrival after checking all the valid documents.

Do Indians need a visa for Maldives?

Indians do not require a pre arrival visa for visiting Maldives. A free Maldives tourist visa which is valid for approximately 90 days is provided to Indian tourists on arrival at the Velana International Airport, Male.

Is Maldives part of India?

Maldives is located south of the Indian Ocean. Precisely in the south west region of Sri Lanka. Hence, Maldives is in no way associated with the Indian subcontinent.

What is the Capital of Maldives?

Located at the heart of the Indian Ocean, Male is the capital of Maldives.

Is Maldives open for tourism?

Yes, Maldives is open for tourism. As of now, there is no need for vaccination but it is mandatory to bring a negative PCR test result taken within 96 hours of departure.

How many islands in Maldives?

There are about 1190 islands in Maldives out of which 185 is inhabited while the others are mainly used for tourism purposes.

Is Maldives expensive?

Maldives is one of the exotic destinations for you to spend your vacation. The money you spend depends on the season you visit Maldives. However, Maldives is still a costly destination wherein the food and stay by itself makes the most of your budget allocated. Upon that you will have to pay service taxes on food and drinks upto 20%.

How much does it cost for a Maldives trip?

Cost of a Maldives trip mainly depends on your decisions. Depending on the resort you choose, the activities you wanted to do, the places you wanted to visit, the season you are planning to go to Maldives, the cost will vary. However, a basic 4 nights and 5 days Maldives holiday package starts from INR 49,997 per person.

Are flights to Maldives open from India?

Yes, the flights to Maldives are open from India. Indians can travel to Maldives without the need for vaccinations. You will just have to carry a negative PCR test result taken within 96 hours of departure.

Does it rain all day in Maldives?

Maldives is one of the tropical destinations and hence it is an all round the year destination. Even during the rainy season, the rain lasts for an hour and hence it does not rain all day in Maldives.

How far is the Maldives from Sri Lanka?

Maldives is about 983 Km away from Sri Lanka.

How to choose a Maldives resort?

Decide your Maldives resort depending on various factors like budget, resort amenities, island features, island size, meal plans, choose your resort accordingly.

Is Maldives cheaper than India?

No, Maldives is 3.1 times more expensive than India.

Is Maldives safe?

Yes, Maldives is very safe for tourists. The crime rates are very less in Maldives. However, it is advised to keep your belongings safe and be responsible for it.

Which language is spoken in Maldives?

Dhivehi is the official language spoken in Maldives.

How many airports in Maldives?

There are 18 airports in Maldives in total out of which 5 are international airports and 13 are domestic airports.

Which country is Maldives?

Maldives is an independent island nation and hence is a country by its own. It does not belong to any country.

Which currency is used in Maldives?

Maldivian Rufiyaa is the official currency of Maldives. 1 Maldivian Rufiyaa is equal to 4.87 Indian rupees.

How big is Maldives?

Maldives is a stretch of beautiful islands and is spread for 300 km² across the Indian Ocean. 

How many resorts in Maldives?

There are 132 resorts in Maldives at present.

Is Maldives a Muslim country?

Yes, Maldives is a Muslim country.

How to go to the Maldives?

According to the Maldives package you choose, when you board a plane from any Indian city, you will reach the Velana International Airport from which you reach your resort with either a speed boat/ sea plane transfer.

Where to stay in Maldives?

Depending on the budget and amenities along with other factors like the Maldives package you choose, the location and activities you want to do, choose a resort that matches your needs. Plan your trip with a good travel company to understand the different options Maldives has. Soneva Fushi, Coco Bodu Hithi, Paradise Island Resort, Vista Beach Retreat, Aveyla Manta Village, Beach Villa Ukulhas, Nika Island Resort, Oblu Select at Sangeli and Spa and VARU by Atmosphere are some of the best recommendations.

How much money to carry to Maldives?

It is better to carry less cash and have a maximum of your budget in card to keep it safe. Calculating the average expense of food, entertainment activities, resort expense it is enough to carry about INR 3,00,000.

Is Maldives a good destination for a family vacation?

The Island is best suited for all kinds of travellers, be it family, friends or couples. Extra research has to be put in while booking the resort as there are specific family friendly resorts that provide activities that are suitable for families with kids making it a memorable holiday for them.

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Andaman Covid 19 Tourist Guide: Andaman and Nicobar administrations have made it

mandatory for all travelers to carry a negative RTPCR report within 48 hours before the excursion. If the tourist tests positive after arrival at the island, they will have to undergo institutional isolation as per existing health protocols. Apart from that do carry masks and sanitizers and follow all the guidelines laid by the hotels and places you plan on visiting. For more information, please visit the COVID Travel Advisory for Andaman and Nicobar

About The Andaman Islands

If you are stuck in the rut and a spirit sapping life, then the idyllic tropical archipelago of the Andaman package is the perfect getaway and escape from the daily humdrum of a fast-paced life. The Andaman Islands is a heavenly paradise – serene and untouched. The Andaman tour packages are designed to ‘let your hair down, unwind and chill out, and recharge your batteries. So, whether it is a couples/honeymooner’s vacation, family vacation, holidaying with friends, or going solo – the Andaman and Nicobar will overreach, in fulfilling your dreams of a great vacation.

The Andaman packages are recognized globally, as one of the best honeymoon destinations in Asia. The Andaman tours offer exclusive packages for honeymooners and couples that include, serene and secluded virgin beaches, luxury hotels and resorts, cruise rides in the Bay of Bengal, candlelight dinner on the beach, and more. There are many pearly white-sand beaches included in the Andaman Nicobar packages, each more scenic than the other in its own unique and charming way. Quite a few of these beaches are ranked as amongst the best in Asia. These beaches with their scenic landscapes, peaceful ambiance, and chilled-out atmosphere offer the ultimate out-of-the-world experience.

Sea walkers, divers, and snorkelers are drawn like a magnet, to the attractive colorful shallow coral reefs, teeming with exotic species of aquatic flora and fauna. If you are an adrenaline junkie, then there are more exciting options for you, such as parasailing, jet-skiing, kayaking, banana and boat rides, swimming with elephants, game fishing, and camping. The gorgeous vistas of Havelock (Swaraj Dweep) and Neill islands, make them two of the more frequented islands, on the Andaman Island tour package. Keep your camera ready, to capture some exquisite memories of silvery beaches, aqua-green waters, beautiful sunsets, and tropical forests.

The Andaman Islands are about 1400 kilometers (km), off the eastern coastline of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in the Bay of Bengal. Of the 572 Andaman and Nicobar Islands that constitute the Union The territory of India, only 38 are inhabited, of which, a few are open to tourists. On the South, Andaman Nicobar is Port Blair, the gateway to the archipelago, and the capital city of the Andaman Islands. The ball is now in your court. Book your Andaman Islands tour package and start packing your bags. Travel light though, because all you will need is beachwear, accessories, and other essentials!

Andaman Covid 19 Tourist Guide

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have reopened for tourists from 27 September 2020. The re-opening comes with many rules and regulations, which need to be strictly followed by all tourists. There are certain guidelines that need to be followed by the residents and tourists who plan an Andaman tour. For more information, please visit the COVID Travel Advisory for Andaman and Nicobar

Andaman Tour Packages From City

The Andaman tour packages offer a host of options for you that range from scenic beaches and aqua-green waters, to active, dormant, and mud volcanoes, from lush green tropical forests to the mangroves, from Cellular Jail and Anthropological Museums to all kinds of water sports, rides and activities, from pocket-friendly stays to luxurious hotels and resorts. Take your pick of the Andaman packages, and have a ‘whale of a time! The Andaman Tour packages are connected from all major cities across India including Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Hyderabad

Best Time To Visit Andaman And Nicobar

Andaman tour experience average to very heavy rainfall during the monsoon season – June to September, which can make the Andaman and Nicobar a very wet place. Also, the waters will be quite choppy, due to the effects of the monsoon weather system. The recommended and ideal time to visit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is between October to May, when the weather is pleasant and the ambient temperature is between 25 degrees and 29 degrees Celsius.

If you coincide your visit with the Andaman Islands’ Annual Tourism Festival, in January, you can join the vibrant cultural festivities that exhibit the varied talents of the local artists and performers. The waters of the Andaman Islands are refreshingly warm and rejuvenating from October to May, which is perfect for water sports, adventures, and activities.

A typical Andaman Nicobar package would take at least 5-6 days, anything less will leave you wanting for more. Your travel time will take another 2-3 days.

How to reach the Andaman Islands?

Indian tourists do not need a passport for Andaman tour packages, they need a permit. However, foreign tourists will need a passport and a permit, from the concerned immigration authorities, to enter the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.

Reaching Andaman by Air:

The most preferred and quickest way for your Andaman tour is a direct 2.5 hours (approximately) flight, from Kolkata, Bengaluru, or Chennai. Chartered planes fly directly to the Andaman Islands, adhering to all rules, regulations, and laws, as per the Andaman Islands’ authorities.

Reaching Andaman by Sea:

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands government website, provides information, about the sailing schedules that are announced 30 days in advance, of the passenger ships that depart from Chennai, Kolkata, and Vishakapatnam, for the Andaman Islands. Cruise liners and private boats can dock in, liaising with the concerned local Andaman Island authorities, after adhering to rules, regulations, and laws.

Where to go in the Andaman Islands?

Below are some of the top places to visit in Andaman and Nicobar

1. 
   Port Blair - A must on your Andaman tour packages

Port Blair, the capital of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, is the official overseer of the culture and heritage of the Andaman Islands. Some of the ‘must-visit sites in Port Blair are –

Cellular Jail: Also known as Kālā Pānī (Hindi for black waters), the Cellular Jail was a colonial prison, used by the British, to exile and silence political prisoners.

Corbyn’s Cove: Corbyn’s Cove is a scenic drive from Port Blair. One of the busier beaches of the Andaman Islands, it offers water activities, such as jet-skiing, diving, and semi-submarine rides.

Samudrika Naval Marine Museum: This museum represents a perfect amalgamation of historical and modern Andaman. The skeleton of a massive blue whale greets you, as you enter the museum. An aquarium displays a variety of fish species, from parrotfish to the rare and venomous species of stonefish, and corals.

Dinner cruise: ‘TSG Bella Bay’, which departs from Junglighat Jetty every evening, offers a luxurious dinner cruise and dancing under the stars, to the beat of the live band and DJ Dance, with your loved ones.

2. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep) – A quick trip to the island to be included on your Andaman Tour

Havelock Island is out to charm either a solo backpacker, a couple, a group of friends, or a family on vacation. Revel in the soft white sandy beaches, or dive into the aqua-green waters, with various options such as jet-skiing, snorkeling, and diving. Expect to see exotic fauna, such as emerald doves, long-tailed meerkats, and hanging parrots on this island. Some of the places to visit on Havelock Island are –

Radhanagar Beach: Known for its white sand beach, clear waters, and serene nature; you can lazeon the beach, go swimming, or enjoy some beautiful sunsets.

Elephant Beach: Famous for its adventure sports and crystal-clear waters, you can do scuba diving, snorkeling, kayaking, jet-skiing, and swimming with the elephants.

Kalapathar Beach: With amazing views and sunsets, it is an extremely relaxing location.

Vijaynagar Beach: This secluded and pristine beach is known for its serenity, calmness, and natural scenic beauty.

3. 
   Neill Island (Shaheed Dweep) – Known for its Unparallel Biodiversity

Neill Island is a short ferry ride from Havelock Island. For those who seek solitude, serenity, and peace on their holidays, your Andaman Island tour package must include Neill Island. Let’s explore the ‘must-do activities on Neill Island.

Howrah Bridge: This is a unique phenomenon of mother nature, close to the Laxmanpur beach. It is formed by two corals, creating a naturally shaped bridge. It got its name from early Bengali settlers, on your Andaman tour.

Neill Island 3 Point Tour: Explore the three beautiful beaches of Neill Island –

Laxmanpur Beach: Experience spectacular sunsets, with the Howrah Bridge in the foreground. Be cautioned, it is not safe for beginners to get into the water, due to the strong currents and high waves.

Sitapur Beach: With a lush green backdrop on its three sides, it opens up to a wonderful cobalt-colored seafront. One of the quietest beaches on Neill Island, you could get lost in your own peaceful world.

Bharatpur Beach: Also called the ‘Sunrise Beach’, for its amazing sunrises. It is one of the most tranquil and picturesque beaches of the Andaman Islands.

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving: Snorkel or dive into small lagoons, around Ramnagar and Laxmanpur beaches, where you will find exquisite coral and marine life. You will be fortunate to spot a Dugong (Sea Cow), the state animal of the Andaman Islands.

Glass Bottom Boat Ride: If you are not comfortable snorkeling or diving, you can enjoy the corals and marine life, through the transparent glass-bottom boat rides.

Trekking: Hike through the rich flora and fauna of the dense tropical forest, on Neill Island. Hire a guide, so you do not get lost.

The Andaman group of islands is situated about 1500 km from mainland India. This beautiful  escape is popular among all types of travelers, groups, honeymoon couples, and families.

The island Islands is blessed with white sandy beaches, rich history, and lush rainforest. However, the remote location of the Andaman islands and the topography makes it very complicated for travelers to plan their trip to Andaman.

Most of the islands popular among tourists are located far from Port Blair (the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands), and there is minimal internet and mobile network connectivity.

You will need to manage a lot of things while you are planning your Andaman trip, like choosing the right hotel, arranging transport in different islands, and booking local ferry and sightseeing tickets.

It will be challenging to plan your Andaman trip without proper knowledge of the islands and understanding the minute details like timings of boats and ferries etc.

Most people choose to avoid this cumbersome task of planning and arranging everything for their Andaman trip and select a tour operator based in the Andaman Islands.

Tour operators in Andaman offer different types of tour packages, and they vary a great deal in price. Everyone is looking for something different and has different ideas about how they want to spend their Andaman trip.

In this article, we will talk in detail about what to expect on your Andaman trip.

What are the factors that will affect your Andaman Tour package cost and how to plan your trip in such a way that you enjoy the beauty of Andaman, while not spending on things which you might not enjoy.

So let's get started!

Here is a list of a few of our packages so that you get the basic idea about the approximate cost of an Andaman tour package.

Popular Andaman tour Packages Cost:

Andaman Tour package cost what to expect?

The cost of your Andaman tour package for two people could range from anywhere between Rs 10000 per person to Rs 50000 per person. You might be wondering why this huge variation in cost!

The cost of your Andaman package is calculated based on the place you visit, the hotel you choose, and the number of persons traveling. We would discuss this in-depth in the next section, but here I would like to give you an example:

If you are a family of 5 people visiting for a 5-day trip, your per-person cost would be less than a couple on the same tour package. This is because the family will be sharing a vehicle where the cost is split between 5 people.

This was one of the many reasons which could affect your Andaman tour package cost.

We at Asap Holidays have served thousands of customers over that last Ten years and understand what each type of traveler could be interested in. We will help you customize your trip in such a way that you don't waste your money and get the best value.

Why our tour packages cost is less than competitors?

We guarantee that our tour package cost is much lower than our competitor's. Now, you could ask how we manage such low cost on our tour packages? Well, I would like to list out a few points which make booking your Andaman tour package with us the cheapest -

We are a 10-year-old company based out of New Delhi, which is the capital of the India. This means we understand the islands very well and have a good team on the ground, unlike many tour package providers who are based in mainland India and depend on local vendors to take care of their guests. Our strong local presence helps us to provide your Andaman tour package at minimum cost.

We being a local company, have prebooked inventory at many of the top hotels in Andamans. This helps us to get rooms at rates that are much lower than what you would get directly or through online booking sites. Our ability to procure hotel rooms at much lower prices plays a significant role in keeping our tour package price low.

We have a fleet of 20 brand new vehicles that are managed very efficiently by our operations team and able drivers. Owning our vehicle fleet gives us the flexibility to keep the package cost low while not compromising on the quality of our service

Choose from our range on Andaman Tour package options We provide a wide range of Andaman tour packages categorized into various sections based on your budget.

Browse through the different budget packages below

As we have mentioned earlier, the Andaman tour packages cost is dependent on a variety of factors, and you will need to understand them to choose the Andaman tour package that is best suited for your needs.

Let us discuss how to calculate your Andaman trip cost in detail:

Airfares

Airfares make a significant portion of your Andaman trip cost. Most of the travel agents offer only land packages and do not provide air ticketing services.

We at Asap Holidays have an air ticketing desk only for customers who book group packages. Though we provide flight ticketing services at request but encourage our customers to book online by themselves.

If you are planning to visit Andaman during Peak season the fares from major cities in India could range from Rs 7000 to Rs 15000 per person.We suggest you book your air tickets early to get reasonable rates.

If you plan to travel during the off-peak season, the flight rates are constant at about Rs 5000 per person.

So Book you air tickets at least two months in advance if traveling in peak season.

Hotel selection for your Andaman trip

Hotels and resort stay costs make up about 30-50% of your total package cost. If you plan your hotel choices at port Blair, havelock, and Niel island wisely, you will end up saving a lot on your package cost.

You should decide your hotel depending on what type of traveler you are

• For couples, we always suggest booking a premium beach resort in havelock, and you can go with a standard 3-star hotel in port Blair as port Blair has more sightseeing places, and you will hardly be in your hotel room.
• For families and groups, we suggest hotels which allow extra beds or have family rooms .this will help you reduce the price of your package a lot.
• For solo travelers or bachelors in a group, we suggest to take standard clean hotels in both port Blair and havelock and spend more time and money exploring stuff and on adventure activities.

How many days you are spending in Andaman

The number of days you decide to spend in Andaman is the most significant factor in determining your trip cost. A quick three-day trip would cost much less than a six-day trip covering all attractions.

For people on a budget, we suggest taking a 4-day tour plan with two days in port Blair 1 day at havelock and same-day return from Niel. We can make the itinerary a bit more hectic, and you can quickly visit most of the famous attractions while keeping your entire night stays to a minimum.

This approach of a packed itinerary is only for those who are on a budget but still want to visit all the places in Andaman.

We have seen from experience that most people enjoy an Andaman tour package, which has a relaxed itinerary, and they get enough time to enjoy each location thoroughly.

What activities you plan

There are a lot of activities that are available in the Andaman Islands for visiting tourists. And generally, tour operators try to include them all in your Andaman tour package because they get good commissions from the activity providers.

While most of the activities are fun and adventurous, they are not for everyone

In our experience, we have seen that people book many activities and don't end up doing all of them and waste a lot of money. Money which could have been used to do stuff they would enjoy. For example, Many people book scuba diving for the whole group beforehand, but only a few members finally end up doing it.

We suggest that you do not include any watersport activity in your Andaman tour package and book it through your travel agent once you are at the locations. The exception is people who are sure about the activity they want to do and can book in advance.

Which of the locations you prefer

Andaman has about 20 attractions which are popular among tourists and many more remote beaches and spots where locals visit frequently.

You cannot cover them all, no matter which Andaman tour package you choose. So we have made a list of the popular destination and tips on how to choose the attraction you want to visit while keeping your Andaman tour package cost within your budget:

Andaman tour attractions and cost details

City tour of Port Blair:

Most tour operators include a city tour on the first day the guests arrive. You typically visit the small parks, zoos, and museums in port Blair city. On average, you get charged Rs 1500 for one five-seater vehicle.

While the city tour is recommended for families with children, couples and bachelors usually don't enjoy it very much. We can suggest that if you are a couple or a group of bachelors, you can skip the city tour and spend more time at Corbyn's cove beach near port Blair or visit marina park for some watersport activities like jet ski.

Cellular jail

Cellular jail is a national monument and gives you a glimpse into the Andaman's history and significance in the Indian independence struggle.

The cellular jail is a gigantic structure with a museum attached. "light and sound show " at cellular jail showcases the history of the prison and the Andaman islands in a theatrical way.

Most of our guests have given us positive reviews after visiting cellular jail. We suggest you add cellular jail to your itinerary as the entry ticket is only Rs 200, and the jail is located within the city.

Ross island

Ross Island is a tiny uninhabited island just off the coast of Port Blair city. The ross island was the old administrative capital of the British in their early days in the Andaman Islands during the 18th century.

Now the island is controlled by the Indian navy and is open for tourist. The island is famous for its old British ruins from the 18th century, which are mostly intact. The people visiting there feel like they have traveled back in time to a ghost town.

The cost of a ticket to ross island is about Rs 500, depending on the season. The last boat from ross island to Port Blair leaves at 5 pm.

Ross Island can be a fun trip for all kind of travelers, and for couples and groups who are not into archeology and history, there is a lovely beach at the rear side of ross island where you can spend quality time.

Havelock Island

Havelock island is the most popular destination for tourists travelling to the Andaman islands and for a good reason.

Havelock Island has many attractions like the famous Radha Nagar beach, Kala Patthar beach, and elephant beach. We recommend you visit Radha Nagar beach and Kala Patthar beach it will cost you about Rs 1500 for a four-wheeler.

Elephant beach requires traveling on a small boat and will cost you about Rs 1000 per person. Visit elephant beach if you have time as it is famous for its crystal clear water and snorkeling activities.

Scuba diving

Andaman is divers heaven. There are many dive schools in havelock, which conduct recreational diving for tourists. You dive up to 5mts along with a certified diver.

Diving in Andamans is safe, and it is a beautiful experience thanks to the clear waters at havelock. Though it is not for everyone and some people find it too intimidating. The cost of a 15min dive is about Rs 3000.

Andaman tour package cost reduction tips:

Try to book an Andaman tour package which includes all meals

Do not prebook the water sport activities in advance. Reach the location and then book based on weather, time available, etc

If traveling in a big group, ask your travel agent to negotiate with hotels and ferries, and provide you with a discount.

Carry all essentials for a beach destination and avoid buying stuff after you start the trip(carry sunglasses, sunscreen, towels, swimming costumes, etc.)It will be challenging to get in Andaman and also will waste your time between your tour.

Cellular Jail

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī ('Black Water'), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The prison was used by the British government for the purpose of exiling political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable activists, including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt, Hare Krishna Konar, Shiv Verma, Yogendra Shukla, and Sudhanshu Dasgupta were imprisoned here during the struggle for India's independence. Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument.

Although the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British had been using the Andaman Islands as a prison since the days in the immediate aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Shortly after the rebellion was suppressed, captured prisoners were put on trial, with many of them being executed. Others were exiled for life to the Andamans to prevent them from re-offending. Two hundred rebels were transported to the islands under the custody of the jailer David Barry and Major James Pattison Walker, a military doctor who had been warden of the prison at Agra. Another 733 from Karachi arrived in April, 1868. In 1863, the Rev. Henry Fisher Corbyn, of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment, was also sent out there and he set up the 'Andamanese Home' there, which was also a repressive institution albeit disguised as a charitable one. Rev. Corbyn was posted in 1866 as Vicar to St. Luke's Church, Abbottabad, and later died there and is buried at the Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad. More prisoners arrived from India and Burma as the settlement grew. Anyone who belonged to the Mughal royal family, or who had sent a petition to Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Rebellion was liable to be deported to the islands.

The remote islands were considered to be a suitable place to punish the independence activists. Not only were they isolated from the mainland, the overseas journey (kala pani) to the islands also threatened them with loss of caste, resulting in social exclusion. The convicts were also used in chain gangs to construct prisons, buildings and harbour facilities.

By the late 19th century, the independence movement had picked up momentum. As a result, the number of prisoners being sent to the Andamans grew and the need for a high-security prison was felt. From August 1889 Charles James Lyall served as home secretary in the Raj government, and was also tasked with an investigation of the penal settlement at Port Blair. He and A. S. Lethbridge, a surgeon in the British administration, concluded that the punishment of transportation to the Andaman Islands was failing to achieve the purpose intended and that indeed criminals preferred to go there rather than be incarcerated in Indian jails. Lyall and Lethbridge recommended that a "penal stage" should exist in the transportation sentence, whereby transported prisoners were subjected to a period of harsh treatment upon arrival. The outcome was the construction of the Cellular Jail, which has been described as "a place of exclusion and isolation within a more broadly constituted remote penal space."

The construction of the prison started in 1896 and was completed in 1906. The original building was a puce-coloured brick building. The bricks used to build the building were brought from Burma.

The building had seven wings, at the center of which a tower served as the intersection and was used by guards to keep watch on the inmates; this format was based on Jeremy Bentham's idea of the Panopticon. The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

Each of the seven wings had three stories upon completion. There were no dormitories and a total of 696 cells. Each cell was 4.5 by 2.7 metres in size with a ventilator located at a height of 3 metres . The name, "cellular jail", derived from the solitary cells which prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. Also, the spokes were so designed such that the face of a cell in a spoke saw the back of cells in another spoke. This way, communication between prisoners was impossible. They were all in solitary confinement. The locks of the prison cells were designed in such a way that the inmate would never be able to reach the latch of the lock. The prison guards would lock up the inmates and throw the key of the lock inside the jail. The inmate would try to put his hand out and try to unlock the door but would never be able to do so as his hand would never reach the lock.

"The British Raj sent Indian dissidents and mutineers to a remote island penal colony in an 'experiment' that involved torture, medical tests, forced labour and, for many, death." In response to poor conditions in the prison, including the quality of prison food, numerous prisoners went on hunger strikes. Those who did were force fed by the prison authorities.

Solitary confinement was implemented as the British colonial government desired to ensure that political prisoners and revolutionaries be isolated from one another. The Andaman island served as the ideal setting for the colonial government to achieve this.

Most prisoners of the Cellular Jail were independence activists. Some inmates were Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, Yogendra Shukla, Batukeshwar Dutt, Babarao Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Bhai Parmanand, Sohan Singh, Subodh Roy and Trailokyanath Chakravarty Several revolutionaries were tried in the Alipore Case (1908), such as Barindra Kumar Ghose, the surviving companion of Bagha Jatin, was transferred to Berhampore Jail in Bengal, before his mysterious death in 1924.

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In March 1868, 238 prisoners tried to escape. By April they were all caught. One committed suicide and of the remainder Superintendent Walker ordered 87 to be hanged.

Among the records of the Government of India's Home Department, we found the Empire's response in its Orders to Provincial Governors and Chief Commissioners. "Very Secret: Regarding security prisoners who hunger strike, every effort should be made to prevent the incidents from being reported, no concessions to be given to the prisoners who must be kept alive. Manual methods of restraint are best, then mechanical when the patient resists."

Hunger strikes by the inmates in May 1933 caught the attention of the jail authorities. Thirty-three prisoners protested their treatment and sat in hunger strike. Among them were Mahavir Singh, an associate of Bhagat Singh, Mohan Kishore Namadas and Mohit Moitra. These three died due to force-feeding.

Statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at Cellular Jail.

Another two wings of the jail were demolished after India achieved independence. However, this led to protests from several former prisoners and political leaders who saw it as a way of erasing the tangible evidence of their history.

The Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital was set up in the premises of the Cellular Jail in 1963. It is now a 500-bed hospital with about 40 doctors serving the local population.

Cellular Jail was declared a National Memorial by the then Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai on 11 February 1979.

The centenary of the jail's completion was marked on 10 March 2006. Many former prisoners were celebrated on this occasion by the Government of India.

Apart from guided tours, a sound-and-light show is also run in the evenings narrating and showcasing the trials and tribulations of the inmates. It is available in English and Hindi.

Cellular Jail
The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī ('Black Water'), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The prison was used by the British government for the purpose of exiling political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable activists, including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt, Hare Krishna Konar, Shiv Verma, Yogendra Shukla, and Sudhanshu Dasgupta were imprisoned here during the struggle for India's independence. Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument.

Although the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British had been using the Andaman Islands as a prison since the days in the immediate aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Shortly after the rebellion was suppressed, captured prisoners were put on trial, with many of them being executed. Others were exiled for life to the Andamans to prevent them from re-offending. Two hundred rebels were transported to the islands under the custody of the jailer David Barry and Major James Pattison Walker, a military doctor who had been warden of the prison at Agra. Another 733 from Karachi arrived in April, 1868. In 1863, the Rev. Henry Fisher Corbyn, of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment, was also sent out there and he set up the 'Andamanese Home' there, which was also a repressive institution albeit disguised as a charitable one. Rev. Corbyn was posted in 1866 as Vicar to St. Luke's Church, Abbottabad, and later died there and is buried at the Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad. More prisoners arrived from India and Burma as the settlement grew. Anyone who belonged to the Mughal royal family, or who had sent a petition to Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Rebellion was liable to be deported to the islands.
The remote islands were considered to be a suitable place to punish the independence activists. Not only were they isolated from the mainland, the overseas journey (kala pani) to the islands also threatened them with loss of caste, resulting in social exclusion. The convicts were also used in chain gangs to construct prisons, buildings and harbour facilities.

By the late 19th century, the independence movement had picked up momentum. As a result, the number of prisoners being sent to the Andamans grew and the need for a high-security prison was felt. From August 1889 Charles James Lyall served as home secretary in the Raj government, and was also tasked with an investigation of the penal settlement at Port Blair. He and A. S. Lethbridge, a surgeon in the British administration, concluded that the punishment of transportation to the Andaman Islands was failing to achieve the purpose intended and that indeed criminals preferred to go there rather than be incarcerated in Indian jails. Lyall and Lethbridge recommended that a "penal stage" should exist in the transportation sentence, whereby transported prisoners were subjected to a period of harsh treatment upon arrival. The outcome was the construction of the Cellular Jail, which has been described as "a place of exclusion and isolation within a more broadly constituted remote penal space."
The construction of the prison started in 1896 and was completed in 1906. The original building was a puce-coloured brick building. The bricks used to build the building were brought from Burma.
The building had seven wings, at the center of which a tower served as the intersection and was used by guards to keep watch on the inmates; this format was based on Jeremy Bentham's idea of the Panopticon. The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Each of the seven wings had three stories upon completion. There were no dormitories and a total of 696 cells. Each cell was 4.5 by 2.7 metres in size with a ventilator located at a height of 3 metres . The name, "cellular jail", derived from the solitary cells which prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. Also, the spokes were so designed such that the face of a cell in a spoke saw the back of cells in another spoke. This way, communication between prisoners was impossible. They were all in solitary confinement. The locks of the prison cells were designed in such a way that the inmate would never be able to reach the latch of the lock. The prison guards would lock up the inmates and throw the key of the lock inside the jail. The inmate would try to put his hand out and try to unlock the door but would never be able to do so as his hand would never reach the lock.
"The British Raj sent Indian dissidents and mutineers to a remote island penal colony in an 'experiment' that involved torture, medical tests, forced labour and, for many, death." In response to poor conditions in the prison, including the quality of prison food, numerous prisoners went on hunger strikes. Those who did were force fed by the prison authorities.

Solitary confinement was implemented as the British colonial government desired to ensure that political prisoners and revolutionaries be isolated from one another. The Andaman island served as the ideal setting for the colonial government to achieve this.
Most prisoners of the Cellular Jail were independence activists. Some inmates were Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, Yogendra Shukla, Batukeshwar Dutt, Babarao Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Bhai Parmanand, Sohan Singh, Subodh Roy and Trailokyanath Chakravarty Several revolutionaries were tried in the Alipore Case (1908), such as Barindra Kumar Ghose, the surviving companion of Bagha Jatin, was transferred to Berhampore Jail in Bengal, before his mysterious death in 1924.
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In March 1868, 238 prisoners tried to escape. By April they were all caught. One committed suicide and of the remainder Superintendent Walker ordered 87 to be hanged.
Among the records of the Government of India's Home Department, we found the Empire's response in its Orders to Provincial Governors and Chief Commissioners. "Very Secret: Regarding security prisoners who hunger strike, every effort should be made to prevent the incidents from being reported, no concessions to be given to the prisoners who must be kept alive. Manual methods of restraint are best, then mechanical when the patient resists."
Hunger strikes by the inmates in May 1933 caught the attention of the jail authorities. Thirty-three prisoners protested their treatment and sat in hunger strike. Among them were Mahavir Singh, an associate of Bhagat Singh, Mohan Kishore Namadas and Mohit Moitra. These three died due to force-feeding.
Statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at Cellular Jail.
Another two wings of the jail were demolished after India achieved independence. However, this led to protests from several former prisoners and political leaders who saw it as a way of erasing the tangible evidence of their history.
The Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital was set up in the premises of the Cellular Jail in 1963. It is now a 500-bed hospital with about 40 doctors serving the local population.
Cellular Jail was declared a National Memorial by the then Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai on 11 February 1979.
The centenary of the jail's completion was marked on 10 March 2006. Many former prisoners were celebrated on this occasion by the Government of India.
Apart from guided tours, a sound-and-light show is also run in the evenings narrating and showcasing the trials and tribulations of the inmates. It is available in English and Hindi.

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west. Cheap Goa Tour Package

Portuguese in Goa (1510-1961)

Advent of Portuguese (1498)
Lured by the thrill of discovery and goaded by the prospect of seeking Christians and spices Portugal embarked on perilous voyages to the Orient which culminated in Bartholomew Dias’ trip around the Cape of Good Hope. This spectacular breakthrough opened new vistas. A decade later Vasco Da Gama set off eastwards and in 1498 landed in Calicut and broke the Arab monopoly of trade.

Estado Da India (1510)
Fired with the dream of establishing an Eastern Empire for Portugal, Afonso De Albuquerque, Governor-General of Goa, set to acquire strategic centers also the trade route. At the invitation of the Admiral of the Vijayanagar’s fleet, he occupied Goa with little initial opposition. Though temporarily routed, he triumphantly regained possession of the city on 25 November 1510, and kneeling in the public square he dedicated Goa to St. Catherine whose feast was on that day.

In 1530 Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East and mistress of the sea from the Cape of Good Hope to the China Sea. For more Beaches you can Book Cheap Andaman Tour Package

St. Francis Xavier (1542-1552)
The arrival in 1542 of a young Spanish nobleman turned Jesuit, with a brilliant background of academic learning, created an impact that was tremendous. His compassion for the weak and the downtrodden, his dynamic zeal and his innate holiness edified many. Two years after his death in 1552, the incorrupt body of the saint was enshrined in Goa. It continued to attract pilgrims from all over the world even to this day.

India's first printing press (1556)
The first printing press of moveable types in the whole of India printed Doutrina Christa written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais and an early work of the poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates Da India.

Indian Incersions (1946-1961)
Jai Hind Movement (1946)
To intensify the flickering torch of freedom, the Indian Socialist leader, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, courted arrest on 18 June 1946 by defiantly addressing a mammoth meeting in Goa.

In August 1946, at Londa on the border, a mass meeting of Goan nationalist workers charted out a plan of non-violent action. To express the peoples’s longing for freedom, satyagrahas were launched till the year ended in different parts of the Portuguese enclaves and resulted in 1500 Goans being imprisoned and the ring leaders deported.

Goa Action Committee (1953)
After the French withdrawal from India, a futile attempt was made by the Government of India to negotiate with Portugal for a peaceful transfer of its possession to the Indian Union. Consequently, the Goa Action Committee was formed in Bombay to awaken sympathy for its cause within the country and abroad.

Operation Vijaya (1961)
In 1958 all parties amalgamated under the banner of Goan Political Convention presided over by Professor Aloysius Soares.

In a carefully planned action by Armed forces, the Government of India entered Goa. Scant resistance was offered and on December 1961 with hardly any bloodshed, Goa was liberated from the Portuguese to remove the last vestiges of foreign domination in India.

Tourism

North Goa is known for its beaches, which include Anjuna Beach, Candolim Beach, Mandrem Beach, Calangute Beach, Morjim Beach, and Arambol Beach. Other tourist sites include Fort Aguada, The church of Mae De Deus and the temple of Boghdeshwara. Chorao, Divar Island are islands of North Goa which are accessible via a ferry crossing.

Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South Andaman and is the territory's only notified town.

Port Blair serves as the entry point for visiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Port Blair is connected with mainland India by both air and sea. It is a 2-to-3-hour flight from mainland India to Port Blair's Veer Savarkar International Airport, and 3–4 days by sea to reach Kolkata, Chennai, or Visakhapatnam from Haddo Wharf in Port Blair. It is home to several museums and a major naval base INS Jarawa of the Indian Navy, along with sea and air bases of the Indian Coast Guard, Andaman and Nicobar Police, Andaman and Nicobar Command, the first integrated tri-command of the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Air Force.

Port Blair is also famous for the historic Cellular Jail and other small islands like Corbyn's Cove, Wandoor, Ross Island, Viper Island etc. which were once home to British colonists. Port Blair has been selected as one of the cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission.
Port Blair has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am), with little variation in average temperature and large amounts of precipitation throughout the year. All months except January, February and March receive substantial rainfall.

Climate of Port Blair
Port Blair has a tropical monsoon climate , with little variation in average temperature and large amounts of precipitation throughout the year. All months except January, February and March receive substantial rainfall.
Modern history
In 1789 the Government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair in the honour of Archibald Blair of the East India Company. After two years, the colony moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony, and the government ceased operating it in May 1796.

In 1824 Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the First Anglo-Burmese War. In the 1830s and 1840s, shipwrecked crews who landed on the Andamans were often attacked and killed by the natives, alarming the British government. In 1855, the government proposed another settlement on the islands, including a convict establishment, but the Indian Rebellion forced a delay in its construction.

However, since the rebellion provided the British with a lot of new prisoners, it made the new Andaman settlement and prison an urgent necessity. Construction began in November 1857 at the renovated Port Blair, avoiding the vicinity of a salt swamp which seemed to have been the source of many of the old colony's problems. The penal colony was originally on Viper Island. The convicts, mostly political prisoners, suffered life imprisonment at hard labour under cruel and degrading conditions. Many were hanged, while others died of disease and starvation. Between 1864 and 1867 a penal establishment was also built with convict labour on the northern side of Ross Island. These structures now lie in ruins.

As the Indian freedom movement continued to grow in the late 19th century, the enormous Cellular Jail was constructed between 1896 and 1906 to house Indian convicts, mostly political prisoners, in solitary confinement. The Cellular Jail is also known as Kala Pani (translated as "Black Waters"), a name given to it due to the torture and general ill-treatment towards its Indian convicts.  You can book Cheap Andaman Tour Package.

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."

In World War II the islands were occupied by the Japanese on 23 March 1942 without opposition from the garrison. British forces returned to the islands in October 1945.

From 1943–44 during World War II, Port Blair served as the headquarters of the Azad Hind government under Subhas Chandra Bose.

Although affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Port Blair survived sufficiently to act as a base for relief efforts in the islands. Travel Agency in Delhi

Pre-history
The indigenous inhabitants are the Andamenese. Radiocarbon dating studies of the kitchen refuse dumps from the mounds excavated by the Anthropological Survey of India at Choladari near Port Blair indicate human occupation for at least 2,000 years, [better source needed] although they are likely to have diverged from the inhabitants of the mainland significantly earlier.

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west.

Portuguese in Goa (1510-1961)
Advent of Portuguese (1498)
Lured by the thrill of discovery and goaded by the prospect of seeking Christians and spices Portugal embarked on perilous voyages to the Orient which culminated in Bartholomew Dias’ trip around the Cape of Good Hope. This spectacular breakthrough opened new vistas. A decade later Vasco Da Gama set off eastwards and in 1498 landed in Calicut and broke the Arab monopoly of trade.

Estado Da India (1510)
Fired with the dream of establishing an Eastern Empire for Portugal, Afonso De Albuquerque, Governor-General of Goa, set to acquire strategic centers also the trade route. At the invitation of the Admiral of the Vijayanagar’s fleet, he occupied Goa with little initial opposition. Though temporarily routed, he triumphantly regained possession of the city on 25 November 1510, and kneeling in the public square he dedicated Goa to St. Catherine whose feast was on that day.

In 1530 Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East and mistress of the sea from the Cape of Good Hope to the China Sea.

St. Francis Xavier (1542-1552)
The arrival in 1542 of a young Spanish nobleman turned Jesuit, with a brilliant background of academic learning, created an impact that was tremendous. His compassion for the weak and the downtrodden, his dynamic zeal and his innate holiness edified many. Two years after his death in 1552, the incorrupt body of the saint was enshrined in Goa. It continued to attract pilgrims from all over the world even to this day.

India's first printing press (1556)
The first printing press of moveable types in the whole of India printed Doutrina Christa written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais and an early work of the poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates Da India.

Indian Incersions (1946-1961)
Jai Hind Movement (1946)
To intensify the flickering torch of freedom, the Indian Socialist leader, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, courted arrest on 18 June 1946 by defiantly addressing a mammoth meeting in Goa.

In August 1946, at Londa on the border, a mass meeting of Goan nationalist workers charted out a plan of non-violent action. To express the peoples’s longing for freedom, satyagrahas were launched till the year ended in different parts of the Portuguese enclaves and resulted in 1500 Goans being imprisoned and the ring leaders deported.

Goa Action Committee (1953)
After the French withdrawal from India, a futile attempt was made by the Government of India to negotiate with Portugal for a peaceful transfer of its possession to the Indian Union. Consequently, the Goa Action Committee was formed in Bombay to awaken sympathy for its cause within the country and abroad.

Operation Vijaya (1961)
In 1958 all parties amalgamated under the banner of Goan Political Convention presided over by Professor Aloysius Soares.

In a carefully planned action by Armed forces, the Government of India entered Goa. Scant resistance was offered and on December 1961 with hardly any bloodshed, Goa was liberated from the Portuguese to remove the last vestiges of foreign domination in India.

Tourism

North Goa is known for its beaches, which include Anjuna Beach, Candolim Beach, Mandrem Beach, Calangute Beach, Morjim Beach, and Arambol Beach. Other tourist sites include Fort Aguada, The church of Mae De Deus and the temple of Boghdeshwara. Chorao, Divar Island are islands of North Goa which are accessible via a ferry crossing.
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Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the India. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani-occupide territories of Pakistan-Occupide-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-Occupide-territories (During India-China war 1962) of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Shah Mir dynasty. The region was part of the Mughal Empire from 1586 to 1751, and thereafter, until 1820, of the Afghan Durrani Empire. That year, the Sikh Empire, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until the Partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Indian Empire became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.
majority population of kashmir is mushlim but fact of the matter is there no one any kashmiri mushlim became the ruler of Kashmir from the begning. yes Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir but He was not Kashmiri.

Hinduism and Buddhism in Kashmir.

During the ancient and medieval periods, Kashmir was an important centre for the development of a Hindu-Buddhist syncretism, in which Madhyamaka and Yogachara were blended with Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta. The Buddhist Mauryan emperor Ashoka is often credited with having founded the old capital of Kashmir, Shrinagari, now ruins on the outskirts of modern Srinagar. Kashmir was long a stronghold of Buddhism. As a Buddhist seat of learning, the Sarvastivada school strongly influenced Kashmir. East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom. In the late 4th century CE, the famous Kuchanese monk Kumārajīva, born to an Indian noble family, studied Dīrghāgama and Madhyāgama in Kashmir under Bandhudatta. He later became a prolific translator who helped take Buddhism to China. His mother Jīva is thought to have retired to Kashmir. Vimalākṣa, a Sarvāstivādan Buddhist monk, travelled from Kashmir to Kucha and there instructed Kumārajīva in the Vinayapiṭaka.
Karkoṭa Empire (625–885 CE) was a powerful Hindu empire, which originated in the region of Kashmir.It was founded by Durlabhvardhana during the lifetime of Harsha. The dynasty marked the rise of Kashmir as a power in South Asia. Avanti Varman ascended the throne of Kashmir on 855 CE, establishing the Utpala dynasty and ending the rule of Karkoṭa dynasty.

According to tradition, Adi Shankara visited the pre-existing Sarvajñapīṭha (Sharada Peeth) in Kashmir in the late 8th century or early 9th century CE. The Madhaviya Shankaravijayam states this temple had four doors for scholars from the four cardinal directions. The southern door of Sarvajna Pitha was opened by Adi Shankara. According to tradition, Adi Shankara opened the southern door by defeating in debate all the scholars there in all the various scholastic disciplines such as Mīmāṃsā, Vedanta and other branches of Hindu philosophy; he ascended the throne of Transcendent wisdom of that temple.

Abhinavagupta (c. 950–1020 CE was one of India's greatest philosophers, mystics and aestheticians. He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician– a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture. He was born in the Kashmir Valley in a family of scholars and mystics and studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers and gurus. In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopaedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.

In the 10th century Mokshopaya or Moksopaya Shastra, a philosophical text on salvation for non-ascetics , was written on the Pradyumna hill in Srinagar. It has the form of a public sermon and claims human authorship and contains about 30,000 shloka's (making it longer than the Ramayana). The main part of the text forms a dialogue between Vashistha and Rama, interchanged with numerous short stories and anecdotes to illustrate the content. This text was later (11th to the 14th century CE) expanded and vedanticised, which resulted in the Yoga Vasistha.

Queen Kota Rani was medieval Hindu ruler of Kashmir, ruling until 1339. She was a notable ruler who is often credited for saving Srinagar city from frequent floods by getting a canal constructed, named after her "Kutte Kol". This canal receives water from Jhelum River at the entry point of city and again merges with Jhelum river beyond the city limits.

Sikh rule

In 1819, the Kashmir Valley passed from the control of the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan to the conquering armies of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh of the Punjab, thus ending four centuries of Muslim rule under the Mughals and the Afghan regime. As the Kashmiris had suffered under the Afghans, they initially welcomed the new Sikh rulers. However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh Empire in Lahore. The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the adhan, the public Muslim call to prayer. Kashmir had also now begun to attract European visitors, several of whom wrote of the abject poverty of the vast Muslim peasantry and of the exorbitant taxes under the Sikhs. High taxes, according to some contemporary accounts, had depopulated large tracts of the countryside, allowing only one-sixteenth of the cultivable land to be cultivated. Many Kashmiri peasants migrated to the plains of the Punjab. However, after a famine in 1832, the Sikhs reduced the land tax to half the produce of the land and also began to offer interest-free loans to farmers; Kashmir became the second highest revenue earner for the Sikh Empire. During this time Kashmir shawls became known worldwide, attracting many buyers, especially in the West.

The state of Jammu, which had been on the ascendant after the decline of the Mughal Empire, came under the sway of the Sikhs in 1770. Further in 1808, it was fully conquered by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Gulab Singh, then a youngster in the House of Jammu, enrolled in the Sikh troops and, by distinguishing himself in campaigns, gradually rose in power and influence. In 1822, he was anointed as the Raja of Jammu. Along with his able general Zorawar Singh Kahluria, he conquered and subdued Rajouri (1821), Kishtwar (1821), Suru valley and Kargil (1835), Ladakh (1834–1840), and Baltistan (1840), thereby surrounding the Kashmir Valley. He became a wealthy and influential noble in the Sikh court.

1947 and 1948

Ranbir Singh's grandson Hari Singh, who had ascended the throne of Kashmir in 1925, was the reigning monarch in 1947 at the conclusion of British rule of the subcontinent and the subsequent partition of the British Indian Empire into the newly independent Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. According to Burton Stein's History of India,

"Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British. The Himalayan kingdom was connected to India through a district of the Punjab, but its population was 77 per cent Muslim and it shared a boundary with Pakistan. Hence, it was anticipated that the maharaja would accede to Pakistan when the British paramountcy ended on 14–15 August. When he hesitated to do this, Pakistan launched a guerrilla onslaught meant to frighten its ruler into submission. Instead the Maharaja appealed to Mountbatten for assistance, and the governor-general agreed on the condition that the ruler accede to India. Indian soldiers entered Kashmir and drove the Pakistani-sponsored irregulars from all but a small section of the state. The United Nations was then invited to mediate the quarrel. The UN mission insisted that the opinion of Kashmiris must be ascertained, while India insisted that no referendum could occur until all of the state had been cleared of irregulars."

In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices. However, since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured, and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999.
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Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the India. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani-occupide territories of Pakistan-Occupide-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-Occupide-territories (During India-China war 1962) of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Shah Mir dynasty. The region was part of the Mughal Empire from 1586 to 1751, and thereafter, until 1820, of the Afghan Durrani Empire. That year, the Sikh Empire, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until the Partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Indian Empire became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.
majority population of kashmir is mushlim but fact of the matter is there no one any kashmiri mushlim became the ruler of Kashmir from the begning. yes Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir but He was not Kashmiri.

Hinduism and Buddhism in Kashmir.

During the ancient and medieval periods, Kashmir was an important centre for the development of a Hindu-Buddhist syncretism, in which Madhyamaka and Yogachara were blended with Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta. The Buddhist Mauryan emperor Ashoka is often credited with having founded the old capital of Kashmir, Shrinagari, now ruins on the outskirts of modern Srinagar. Kashmir was long a stronghold of Buddhism. As a Buddhist seat of learning, the Sarvastivada school strongly influenced Kashmir. East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom. In the late 4th century CE, the famous Kuchanese monk Kumārajīva, born to an Indian noble family, studied Dīrghāgama and Madhyāgama in Kashmir under Bandhudatta. He later became a prolific translator who helped take Buddhism to China. His mother Jīva is thought to have retired to Kashmir. Vimalākṣa, a Sarvāstivādan Buddhist monk, travelled from Kashmir to Kucha and there instructed Kumārajīva in the Vinayapiṭaka.
Karkoṭa Empire (625–885 CE) was a powerful Hindu empire, which originated in the region of Kashmir.It was founded by Durlabhvardhana during the lifetime of Harsha. The dynasty marked the rise of Kashmir as a power in South Asia. Avanti Varman ascended the throne of Kashmir on 855 CE, establishing the Utpala dynasty and ending the rule of Karkoṭa dynasty.

According to tradition, Adi Shankara visited the pre-existing Sarvajñapīṭha (Sharada Peeth) in Kashmir in the late 8th century or early 9th century CE. The Madhaviya Shankaravijayam states this temple had four doors for scholars from the four cardinal directions. The southern door of Sarvajna Pitha was opened by Adi Shankara. According to tradition, Adi Shankara opened the southern door by defeating in debate all the scholars there in all the various scholastic disciplines such as Mīmāṃsā, Vedanta and other branches of Hindu philosophy; he ascended the throne of Transcendent wisdom of that temple.

Abhinavagupta (c. 950–1020 CE was one of India's greatest philosophers, mystics and aestheticians. He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician– a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture. He was born in the Kashmir Valley in a family of scholars and mystics and studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers and gurus. In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopaedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.

In the 10th century Mokshopaya or Moksopaya Shastra, a philosophical text on salvation for non-ascetics , was written on the Pradyumna hill in Srinagar. It has the form of a public sermon and claims human authorship and contains about 30,000 shloka's (making it longer than the Ramayana). The main part of the text forms a dialogue between Vashistha and Rama, interchanged with numerous short stories and anecdotes to illustrate the content. This text was later (11th to the 14th century CE) expanded and vedanticised, which resulted in the Yoga Vasistha.

Queen Kota Rani was medieval Hindu ruler of Kashmir, ruling until 1339. She was a notable ruler who is often credited for saving Srinagar city from frequent floods by getting a canal constructed, named after her "Kutte Kol". This canal receives water from Jhelum River at the entry point of city and again merges with Jhelum river beyond the city limits.

Sikh rule

In 1819, the Kashmir Valley passed from the control of the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan to the conquering armies of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh of the Punjab, thus ending four centuries of Muslim rule under the Mughals and the Afghan regime. As the Kashmiris had suffered under the Afghans, they initially welcomed the new Sikh rulers. However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh Empire in Lahore. The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the adhan, the public Muslim call to prayer. Kashmir had also now begun to attract European visitors, several of whom wrote of the abject poverty of the vast Muslim peasantry and of the exorbitant taxes under the Sikhs. High taxes, according to some contemporary accounts, had depopulated large tracts of the countryside, allowing only one-sixteenth of the cultivable land to be cultivated. Many Kashmiri peasants migrated to the plains of the Punjab. However, after a famine in 1832, the Sikhs reduced the land tax to half the produce of the land and also began to offer interest-free loans to farmers; Kashmir became the second highest revenue earner for the Sikh Empire. During this time Kashmir shawls became known worldwide, attracting many buyers, especially in the West.

The state of Jammu, which had been on the ascendant after the decline of the Mughal Empire, came under the sway of the Sikhs in 1770. Further in 1808, it was fully conquered by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Gulab Singh, then a youngster in the House of Jammu, enrolled in the Sikh troops and, by distinguishing himself in campaigns, gradually rose in power and influence. In 1822, he was anointed as the Raja of Jammu. Along with his able general Zorawar Singh Kahluria, he conquered and subdued Rajouri (1821), Kishtwar (1821), Suru valley and Kargil (1835), Ladakh (1834–1840), and Baltistan (1840), thereby surrounding the Kashmir Valley. He became a wealthy and influential noble in the Sikh court.

1947 and 1948

Ranbir Singh's grandson Hari Singh, who had ascended the throne of Kashmir in 1925, was the reigning monarch in 1947 at the conclusion of British rule of the subcontinent and the subsequent partition of the British Indian Empire into the newly independent Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. According to Burton Stein's History of India,

"Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British. The Himalayan kingdom was connected to India through a district of the Punjab, but its population was 77 per cent Muslim and it shared a boundary with Pakistan. Hence, it was anticipated that the maharaja would accede to Pakistan when the British paramountcy ended on 14–15 August. When he hesitated to do this, Pakistan launched a guerrilla onslaught meant to frighten its ruler into submission. Instead the Maharaja appealed to Mountbatten for assistance, and the governor-general agreed on the condition that the ruler accede to India. Indian soldiers entered Kashmir and drove the Pakistani-sponsored irregulars from all but a small section of the state. The United Nations was then invited to mediate the quarrel. The UN mission insisted that the opinion of Kashmiris must be ascertained, while India insisted that no referendum could occur until all of the state had been cleared of irregulars."

In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices. However, since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured, and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999.
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North Goa

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west.

Portuguese in Goa (1510-1961)
Advent of Portuguese (1498)
Lured by the thrill of discovery and goaded by the prospect of seeking Christians and spices Portugal embarked on perilous voyages to the Orient which culminated in Bartholomew Dias’ trip around the Cape of Good Hope. This spectacular breakthrough opened new vistas. A decade later Vasco Da Gama set off eastwards and in 1498 landed in Calicut and broke the Arab monopoly of trade.

Estado Da India (1510)
Fired with the dream of establishing an Eastern Empire for Portugal, Afonso De Albuquerque, Governor-General of Goa, set to acquire strategic centers also the trade route. At the invitation of the Admiral of the Vijayanagar’s fleet, he occupied Goa with little initial opposition. Though temporarily routed, he triumphantly regained possession of the city on 25 November 1510, and kneeling in the public square he dedicated Goa to St. Catherine whose feast was on that day.

In 1530 Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East and mistress of the sea from the Cape of Good Hope to the China Sea.

St. Francis Xavier (1542-1552)
The arrival in 1542 of a young Spanish nobleman turned Jesuit, with a brilliant background of academic learning, created an impact that was tremendous. His compassion for the weak and the downtrodden, his dynamic zeal and his innate holiness edified many. Two years after his death in 1552, the incorrupt body of the saint was enshrined in Goa. It continued to attract pilgrims from all over the world even to this day.

India's first printing press (1556)
The first printing press of moveable types in the whole of India printed Doutrina Christa written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais and an early work of the poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates Da India.

Indian Incersions (1946-1961)
Jai Hind Movement (1946)
To intensify the flickering torch of freedom, the Indian Socialist leader, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, courted arrest on 18 June 1946 by defiantly addressing a mammoth meeting in Goa.

In August 1946, at Londa on the border, a mass meeting of Goan nationalist workers charted out a plan of non-violent action. To express the peoples’s longing for freedom, satyagrahas were launched till the year ended in different parts of the Portuguese enclaves and resulted in 1500 Goans being imprisoned and the ring leaders deported

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Goa Action Committee (1953)
After the French withdrawal from India, a futile attempt was made by the Government of India to negotiate with Portugal for a peaceful transfer of its possession to the Indian Union. Consequently, the Goa Action Committee was formed in Bombay to awaken sympathy for its cause within the country and abroad.

Operation Vijaya (1961)
In 1958 all parties amalgamated under the banner of Goan Political Convention presided over by Professor Aloysius Soares.

In a carefully planned action by Armed forces, the Government of India entered Goa. Scant resistance was offered and on December 1961 with hardly any bloodshed, Goa was liberated from the Portuguese to remove the last vestiges of foreign domination in India.

Tourism

North Goa is known for its beaches, which include Anjuna Beach, Candolim Beach, Mandrem Beach, Calangute Beach, Morjim Beach, and Arambol Beach. Other tourist sites include Fort Aguada, The church of Mae De Deus and the temple of Boghdeshwara. Chorao, Divar Island are islands of North Goa which are accessible via a ferry crossing.
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Modern history

In 1789 the Government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair in the honour of Archibald Blair of the East India Company. After two years, the colony moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony, and the government ceased operating it in May 1796.

In 1824 Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the First Anglo-Burmese War. In the 1830s and 1840s, shipwrecked crews who landed on the Andamans were often attacked and killed by the natives, alarming the British government. In 1855, the government proposed another settlement on the islands, including a convict establishment, but the Indian Rebellion forced a delay in its construction.

However, since the rebellion provided the British with a lot of new prisoners, it made the new Andaman settlement and prison an urgent necessity. Construction began in November 1857 at the renovated Port Blair, avoiding the vicinity of a salt swamp which seemed to have been the source of many of the old colony's problems. The penal colony was originally on Viper Island. The convicts, mostly political prisoners, suffered life imprisonment at hard labour under cruel and degrading conditions. Many were hanged, while others died of disease and starvation. Between 1864 and 1867 a penal establishment was also built with convict labour on the northern side of Ross Island. These structures now lie in ruins.

As the Indian freedom movement continued to grow in the late 19th century, the enormous Cellular Jail was constructed between 1896 and 1906 to house Indian convicts, mostly political prisoners, in solitary confinement. The Cellular Jail is also known as Kala Pani (translated as "Black Waters"), a name given to it due to the torture and general ill-treatment towards its Indian convicts.

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."

In World War II the islands were occupied by the Japanese on 23 March 1942 without opposition from the garrison. British forces returned to the islands in October 1945.

From 1943–44 during World War II, Port Blair served as the headquarters of the Azad Hind government under Subhas Chandra Bose.

Although affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Port Blair survived sufficiently to act as a base for relief efforts in the islands.

Pre-history

The indigenous inhabitants are the Andamenese. Radiocarbon dating studies of the kitchen refuse dumps from the mounds excavated by the Anthropological Survey of India at Choladari near Port Blair indicate human occupation for at least 2,000 years, [better source needed] although they are likely to have diverged from the inhabitants of the mainland significantly earlier.

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Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South Andaman and is the territory's only notified town.

Port Blair serves as the entry point for visiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Port Blair is connected with mainland India by both air and sea. It is a 2-to-3-hour flight from mainland India to Port Blair's Veer Savarkar International Airport, and 3–4 days by sea to reach Kolkata, Chennai, or Visakhapatnam from Haddo Wharf in Port Blair. It is home to several museums and a major naval base INS Jarawa of the Indian Navy, along with sea and air bases of the Indian Coast Guard, Andaman and Nicobar Police, Andaman and Nicobar Command, the first integrated tri-command of the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Air Force.[4]

Port Blair is also famous for the historic Cellular Jail and other small islands like Corbyn's Cove, Wandoor, Ross Island, Viper Island etc. which were once home to British colonists. Port Blair has been selected as one of the cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission.
Port Blair has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am), with little variation in average temperature and large amounts of precipitation throughout the year. All months except January, February and March receive substantial rainfall.

Climate of Port Blair
Port Blair has a tropical monsoon climate , with little variation in average temperature and large amounts of precipitation throughout the year. All months except January, February and March receive substantial rainfall.

In 1789 the Government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair in the honour of Archibald Blair of the East India Company. After two years, the colony moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony, and the government ceased operating it in May 1796.

In 1824 Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the First Anglo-Burmese War. In the 1830s and 1840s, shipwrecked crews who landed on the Andamans were often attacked and killed by the natives, alarming the British government. In 1855, the government proposed another settlement on the islands, including a convict establishment, but the Indian Rebellion forced a delay in its construction.

However, since the rebellion provided the British with a lot of new prisoners, it made the new Andaman settlement and prison an urgent necessity. Construction began in November 1857 at the renovated Port Blair, avoiding the vicinity of a salt swamp which seemed to have been the source of many of the old colony's problems. The penal colony was originally on Viper Island. The convicts, mostly political prisoners, suffered life imprisonment at hard labour under cruel and degrading conditions. Many were hanged, while others died of disease and starvation. Between 1864 and 1867 a penal establishment was also built with convict labour on the northern side of Ross Island. These structures now lie in ruins.

As the Indian freedom movement continued to grow in the late 19th century, the enormous Cellular Jail was constructed between 1896 and 1906 to house Indian convicts, mostly political prisoners, in solitary confinement. The Cellular Jail is also known as Kala Pani (translated as "Black Waters"), a name given to it due to the torture and general ill-treatment towards its Indian convicts.

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."

In World War II the islands were occupied by the Japanese on 23 March 1942 without opposition from the garrison. British forces returned to the islands in October 1945.

From 1943–44 during World War II, Port Blair served as the headquarters of the Azad Hind government under Subhas Chandra Bose.

Although affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Port Blair survived sufficiently to act as a base for relief efforts in the islands.

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North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west.

Portuguese in Goa (1510-1961)

Advent of Portuguese (1498)

Lured by the thrill of discovery and goaded by the prospect of seeking Christians and spices Portugal embarked on perilous voyages to the Orient which culminated in Bartholomew Dias’ trip around the Cape of Good Hope. This spectacular breakthrough opened new vistas. A decade later Vasco Da Gama set off eastwards and in 1498 landed in Calicut and broke the Arab monopoly of trade.

Estado Da India (1510)

Fired with the dream of establishing an Eastern Empire for Portugal, Afonso De Albuquerque, Governor-General of Goa, set to acquire strategic centers also the trade route. At the invitation of the Admiral of the Vijayanagar’s fleet, he occupied Goa with little initial opposition. Though temporarily routed, he triumphantly regained possession of the city on 25 November 1510, and kneeling in the public square he dedicated Goa to St. Catherine whose feast was on that day.

In 1530 Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East and mistress of the sea from the Cape of Good Hope to the China Sea.

St. Francis Xavier (1542-1552)

The arrival in 1542 of a young Spanish nobleman turned Jesuit, with a brilliant background of academic learning, created an impact that was tremendous. His compassion for the weak and the downtrodden, his dynamic zeal and his innate holiness edified many. Two years after his death in 1552, the incorrupt body of the saint was enshrined in Goa. It continued to attract pilgrims from all over the world even to this day.

India's first printing press (1556)

The first printing press of moveable types in the whole of India printed Doutrina Christa written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais and an early work of the poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates Da India.

Indian Incersions (1946-1961)

Jai Hind Movement (1946)

To intensify the flickering torch of freedom, the Indian Socialist leader, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, courted arrest on 18 June 1946 by defiantly addressing a mammoth meeting in Goa.

In August 1946, at Londa on the border, a mass meeting of Goan nationalist workers charted out a plan of non-violent action. To express the peoples’s longing for freedom, satyagrahas were launched till the year ended in different parts of the Portuguese enclaves and resulted in 1500 Goans being imprisoned and the ring leaders deported.

Goa Action Committee (1953)

After the French withdrawal from India, a futile attempt was made by the Government of India to negotiate with Portugal for a peaceful transfer of its possession to the Indian Union. Consequently, the Goa Action Committee was formed in Bombay to awaken sympathy for its cause within the country and abroad.

Operation Vijaya (1961)

In 1958 all parties amalgamated under the banner of Goan Political Convention presided over by Professor Aloysius Soares.

In a carefully planned action by Armed forces, the Government of India entered Goa. Scant resistance was offered and on December 1961 with hardly any bloodshed, Goa was liberated from the Portuguese to remove the last vestiges of foreign domination in India.

Tourism

North Goa is known for its beaches, which include Anjuna Beach, Candolim Beach, Mandrem Beach, Calangute Beach, Morjim Beach, and Arambol Beach. Other tourist sites include Fort Aguada, The church of Mae De Deus and the temple of Boghdeshwara. Chorao, Divar Island are islands of North Goa which are accessible via a ferry crossing.

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