Windward 5 Days Avis Island Andaman Package | Limpid

The drive from Rangat to Mayabunder covers approximately 70 kilometres in around 2 hours. Mayabunder is a small North Andaman town with a working harbour, a daily market and a quieter pace than any town in the south. The boat from Mayabunder harbour to Avis Island departs in the early afternoon — approximately 20 to 30 minutes across the channel to a small island with a coconut plantation running to the water’s edge and a beach on the sheltered side facing the mainland. The coconut grove on Avis Island is managed by the administration and the island has no commercial tourist infrastructure — no operator at the jetty, no food stall at the tree line, no organised activity on offer.

The group spends the afternoon on the island at their own pace before the return boat to Mayabunder. The Karen community settlement is the evening programme on this avis island andaman package — the descendants of Burmese Karen people brought to the Andamans during the British colonial period, maintaining their hand-weaving tradition and language across generations. Overnight at Mayabunder

The morning of Day 3 on this avis island andaman package is for Karmatang Beach — a long, undeveloped stretch north of Mayabunder town that serves as a documented nesting site for olive ridley turtles between approximately October and March. Outside the nesting season the beach is a wide, quiet arc of sand with forest running close to the waterline and no commercial development on it. During the nesting season the pre-dawn walk to Karmatang gives a window for turtle activity — nesting happens after dark and the early morning hours are when the last turtles of the night may still be on the beach. Turtle sightings are not guaranteed at any time.

Webi Beach in the afternoon is a quieter stretch in the Mayabunder area — less visited than Karmatang, a shorter beach with a forest edge and the kind of undisturbed character that North Andaman consistently offers the traveller who is willing to drive past the signpost. The evening at Mayabunder is for the harbour and the market. Overnight at Mayabunder.

Day 4 of this avis island andaman package is the return drive from Mayabunder to Port Blair — approximately 240 kilometres taking 7 to 8 hours including the southbound convoy passage through the Jarawa Tribal Reserve. The convoy applies the same rules as the northbound run — no stopping, no photography, no interaction with tribal members. The drive south from Mayabunder retraces a road that looks different from the return direction — the forest more familiar, the convoy passage less novel, the outskirts of Port Blair more crowded than memory has held them across the two Mayabunder nights.

A brief stop at the Baratang mud volcanoes is possible on the return if the convoy timing allows — a short walk from the main road to the low grey clay mounds with slow subsurface gas activity. The Bon team confirms the Baratang stop availability on the day. Port Blair by late afternoon or evening. Overnight in Port Blair.

The final morning of the avis island andaman package is in Port Blair. Groups with afternoon or evening departure flights have time for Ross Island — now Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island — reached by a short boat ride from Aberdeen Jetty, the colonial ruins of the former British administrative headquarters standing in forest with deer moving through the cleared paths. North Bay is available for a glass bottom boat ride over the reef close to Port Blair.

The Sagarika government emporium near the clock tower carries Andaman shell craft and local spices at fixed prices for a final purchase before the airport. The Bon Voyagers vehicle drops at Port Blair Airport. The five days have covered the mangrove waterway at Rangat, a coconut plantation island accessible only by boat, a living Karen community and two undeveloped North Andaman beaches — none of which appear in the standard Andaman itinerary.