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A Trip To Andaman

My first experience of travelling , was to my native place .

This year during Diwali vacations I went to Port Blair in Andaman My grandpa strictly instructed us to celebrate Ganesh

with my family. Port Blair is a historical place which is famous for Chaturthi at my native place . So, we rushed to my native

its historical jail, beaches, marine life, islands, etc. There are place. When I sat in the bus I was excited and was thinking

around 572 islands in Andaman and Nicobar region but most of that how would be my native place. When I slept that night, in

them are not having access to people. the dream I saw that me, my father and grandpa were

celebrating Ganesh Chaturti.
The weather in Andaman is of typical costal so it was very hot and

humid. On the first day I visited Ross Island, the old capital of In the morning, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. Then I saw that the sun

Andaman. It’s a beautiful island with deer all around. was slowly rising up, that sight I saw was extremely beautiful
and gorgeous. Then the bus driver dropped us at a bus stop,
In the afternoon we visited Cellular Jail, it has witnessed the from that place we booked an auto and went home.

sacrifice, pain, sorrow, freedom spirit of our national heroes

during pre- independence period. There were many freedom My home is also called as ‘WADA’. When I saw my home, I was

fighters were given harsh punishments and kept in isolated rooms extremely surprised because I had never seen such a big

to de-motivate them. One of them was Veer Savarkar. The British house. Then all the people living in that WADA were very

jailer Bari was so scared of Savarkar that he tortured him welcoming. Then after all my work I and my grandpa went to

immensely but couldn’t be successful. After seeing the light and the potter to buy the Ganapati idol which was made up of

sound show I got goose bumps. A must visit place in Port Blair. mud.

Then I coloured the Ganapati with ‘SHANDUR’ colour ( orange
After that we went to Havelock Island by cruise. It’s a small island

surrounded by natural beauty and crystal clear beaches. We colour).Then I and my grandpa decorated ‘poojaghar’ with

enjoyed lot of water sport activities like snorkeling, sofa ride, ski lots of flowers and paper craft .Then we did ‘MAHAARTI’ and
‘ARTI’ of lord Ganesh .Then I offered the ‘NAIVEDYAM’ to lord
jet, at Elephant beach. Amazing marine life and flora fauna can be Ganesh. Then after some time we started our lunch .In the

seen under water via snorkeling. It was a life time experience for lunch ,me , my father ,my mother ,my grandma ,my grandpa,

me. One more adventure activity I did was early morning scuba my uncle and my aunt had mix vegetable sabji ,dal,chappati

diving; I went to the bottom of the ocean. It was breathtaking ,modakas ,Pasham ,rice. Next day we did the VISARJAN of

experience. lord Ganesha. This was my first experience of travelling.

Vedant Pujari (VII) Aditya Pabbavar (V)