7 Day Full Andaman Complete Tour Package | Sweeping

The pre-dawn departure from Port Blair on Day 2 of this andaman complete tour package is for the Baratang convoy checkpoint — the government-managed convoy that passes through the Jarawa Tribal Reserve section of the Andaman Trunk Road north of Port Blair. No stopping, no photography within the reserve boundary. Baratang Island is approximately 100 kilometres north and the full journey takes approximately 3 to 4 hours including the convoy passage. At Baratang the limestone caves are reached by boat through the mangrove channel — approximately 30 minutes each way — and a short forest walk to the cave entrance.

The stalactite and stalagmite formations inside the limestone caves are geological features found nowhere else in the accessible Andaman Islands. The mud volcanoes near Baratang are the additional geological stop. The return convoy brings the group back to Port Blair by evening — the andaman complete tour package has already covered a geography that the standard five-day circuit never approaches. Overnight in Port Blair.

The private ferry from Port Blair to Havelock on Day 3 of this andaman complete tour package covers approximately 57 kilometres in around 1.5 to 2.5 hours. The two Port Blair nights before this ferry mean the group reaches Havelock with the Cellular Jail history and the Baratang geological layer already behind them — a richer arrival than the standard circuit where Havelock is the first stop after a single Port Blair night.

Radhanagar Beach on the western side is the afternoon programme — the long arc of white sand backed by uncleared forest. In the andaman complete tour package this is not the only Havelock afternoon — three nights on the island give every major Havelock site its own time. The Day 3 Radhanagar arrival is the first of three Havelock days rather than the only one. Overnight at Havelock.

Day 4 is the full two-end Havelock light day of this andaman complete tour package. The pre-dawn drive to Kalapathar Beach on the eastern side arrives before first light — the dark rock formations against the pale pre-dawn sky, the horizontal first light catching the upper surfaces of the boulders as the sun rises over the open channel to the east. Elephant Beach in the morning — the 45-minute boat ride to the reef bay where sea walking, snorkelling and scuba introduction dives are available from registered operators at charges paid locally. The reef in the December to March peak visibility window is at its clearest at this morning hour before the afternoon light angle changes.

Radhanagar Beach in the late afternoon is the sunset session — the 45-minute window before the sun drops behind the tree line when the water colour shifts from blue-green to copper. Day 4 of the andaman complete tour package covers the Havelock sunrise, the reef and the sunset in the same day. Overnight at Havelock.

Day 5 is the open day of this andaman complete tour package — the day with no prescribed programme that the four and five-day circuits never produce. The group has already covered Kalapathar, Elephant Beach and Radhanagar the previous day. Day 5 belongs entirely to the group’s preference. A second Elephant Beach session for more reef time, a kayaking session through the Havelock mangrove channels, a stand-up paddleboarding session on the flat eastern channel water, a night snorkelling session at Elephant Beach after dark, a return to Radhanagar for the morning light or a day of complete rest on the beach with no activity at all — all of these are the right use of Day 5 of the andaman complete tour package.

A complete trip is not only about covering the maximum sites. It is also about having one day that is entirely the traveller’s. All optional activity charges paid locally to registered operators. Overnight at Havelock.

The ferry from Havelock to Neil Island on Day 6 of this andaman complete tour package takes approximately 30 to 60 minutes. Neil Island — Shaheed Dweep — is the quietest island in the accessible Andaman chain and the one that completes the island variety dimension of this andaman complete tour package. Port Blair gave the colonial history and the administrative character. Havelock gave the reef and the resort character and the long beach. Neil Island gives the quiet of an island that operates at its own pace — the natural bridge at Laxmanpur on the western side at low tide, the Bharatpur Beach calm water in the evening, the working island community visible in the road and the market between the beaches.

In an andaman complete tour package Neil Island is not the third island squeezed into the last night — it is the deliberate closing character, the island that resets what the previous five days built up. Overnight at Neil Island.

Sitapur Beach on Neil Island’s eastern tip opens the final day of this andaman complete tour package — the reef at low tide, the sunrise coming up over the open water to the east with the beach empty at this hour. The Neil to Port Blair ferry takes approximately 1 to 2 hours. Ross Island — now Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island — is the afternoon programme in Port Blair, reached by short boat from Aberdeen Jetty.

The colonial ruins of the British administrative headquarters standing in forest with deer on the cleared paths close the historical chapter of the andaman complete tour package that the Cellular Jail opened six days ago on Day 1. The Bon Voyagers vehicle drops at Port Blair Airport. Seven days, four destination layers — colonial history, geological caves and mangroves, reef and beach, island quiet — and every major accessible Andaman dimension covered.