Morning Port Blair Arrival
Morning Tea 5.30 To 7.00 AM
Breakfast 7.30 To 8. 30AM
Harbor Pick-up and Hotel Transfer
Sea Scape Port Blair Check-in Time : 08:00
Samudrika Marine Museum - Port Blair
At a distance of 2 km from Port Blair Central Bus Stand, Samudrika Marine Museum is a museum situated in Haddo area of Port Blair in Andaman Islands. The museum is run by the Indian Navy and is one of the popular places to visit during Port Blair tour.
Also known as Naval Marine Museum, Samudrika Museum create awareness on various aspects of oceanic environment and houses a vast collection of cells, corals and a few species of colourful fishes of the sea around the islands. The main attraction of the museum is the large skeleton of a blue whale. This museum is a perfect place to know about the various aspects of marine ecology.
The museum has five sections presenting history of Andaman Islands, Geographical information, people of Andaman, Archaeology and Marine life. In the first section visitors would know the essential facts about Andamans like volcanoes, tribals, types of wood, insects, type of forests in Andamans. The second section, the aqua sections features an aquarium showing an extensive collection of fishes. The third section is Coral section and will showcase an extraordinary marine formation and their exact locations. The 3th & 5th section displays a large collection of seashells and tribal displays in Andamans. Moreover, the 5th section will also exhibit exotic butterflies, a variety of snake specimens, and war currency.
Cellular Jail - Port Blair
At a distance of 1.5 km from Port Blair Central Bus Stand, the Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, was a colonial prison located at Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The prison was known to house many notable Indian activists during the struggle for India's independence. Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument and also one of the top places to visit in Port Blair.
The construction of the Cellular Jail was started by the British in 1896 and was completed in 1906. The penal settlement was established in Andamans by the British after the First War of Independence in 1857. It was the beginning of the agonizing story of freedom fighters in the massive and awful jails at Viper Island followed by the Cellular Jail. The prison was used by the British especially to exile political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable freedom fighters such as Batukeshwar Dutt, Bhagat Singh and Veer Savarkar, among others, were imprisoned here during the struggle for India's independence.
Cellular Jail is a massive three-storeyed structure with seven wings, radiating from a central watch tower, shaped like spokes of a wheel. Each wing in this jail had three storeys, which consist of total of 698 cells. The architecture of Cellular Jail was conceptualized on the basis of 'Pennsylvania System or Separate System' theory in which separate confinement is necessary for each inmate for complete isolation from other inmates. No communication of any kind was possible between prisoners in the same or different wings. The design of Cellular Jail consists of radiating wings that allow a single guard to keep watch on all the prisoners from the central tower.
After Independence in 1947, Cellular Jail was declared as a National Memorial. Today the entrance block of the National Memorial houses, Freedom Fighters Photo and Exhibition Gallery in the ground floor. The first floor of the building has an Art Gallery, Netaji Gallery and a Library on Freedom Movement. Gallery on First War of Independence and on Old Photographs Gallery have also been set up in the premises of the Jail. An eternal flame of Freedom-Swatantrya Jyoti has been erected in the vicinity of the Cellular Jail in memory of all freedom fighters and martyrs. In addition, visitors can also experience light and sound show in Hindi and English during evening.