Andaman Tour Package
from Ahmedabad
Radhanagar at sunset, the reefs off Havelock, bioluminescence after dark — the international beach holiday you take on a domestic ID.
Radhanagar at sunset, the reefs off Havelock, bioluminescence after dark — the international beach holiday you take on a domestic ID.
The Andaman Islands sit in the Bay of Bengal like a secret the rest of India has kept too long — water so clear you can see the coral thirty feet under the boat, beaches that rank among Asia's most beautiful, and forests older than memory. What makes them remarkable for a traveller from Ahmedabad is the arithmetic: this is, quite simply, the international beach experience available domestically. No passport, no visa, no currency to change — just a government photo ID and a flight. The reefs here are among the healthiest in the Indian Ocean, protected by some of India's strictest marine rules, and the beaches genuinely look like the photographs.
We build the islands as three chapters threaded into one seamless trip — Port Blair for the history, Havelock for the headline beaches and the diving, and Neil for the quiet at the end. A typical six-night route opens in Port Blair with the Cellular Jail and its light-and-sound show, gives a day to Ross Island and the coral at North Bay, then crosses by premium catamaran ferry to Havelock for Radhanagar and the reefs, and finishes on Neil before returning to fly home. Every inter-island ferry is pre-booked — they genuinely sell out weeks ahead in peak season, and a missed ferry can unravel a whole trip — every hotel is vetted, and every dive and snorkel session is reserved in advance.
A word on how the days run, because we'd rather be straight than oversell. The big-ticket experiences here are activity-based and many sit outside the base package: the boat to Elephant Beach is chargeable and weather-dependent (it sometimes shifts to the Lighthouse site on government clearance), and water sports, scuba and the undersea sea-walk are paid add-ons rather than inclusions. We pre-book the ones you want so they're locked and supervised, and we tell you plainly which are extra — no surprises at the jetty. What *is* included is the spine that matters: accommodation with breakfast, the premium ferry transfers, the sightseeing, and every airport and inter-island transfer.
Two practical truths. First, the season is decisive: October to May is the window — clear skies, calm seas, thirty-metre underwater visibility — with December to February the peak, which is exactly when ferries and dive slots sell out and pre-booking earns its keep. June to September is monsoon, the seas turn rough and most water sports suspend, so it's not a first-timer's season. Second, the Andamans reward range: a non-swimmer can walk the ocean floor in a pressurised helmet at North Bay, a first-timer can take a Discover Scuba session with a certified instructor at Elephant Beach with no prior experience, and after dark you can kayak through water that glows blue with bioluminescent plankton — one of the most genuinely magical things you can do anywhere in India.
For honeymooners and couples, the Andamans have a quieter, less-discovered romance than the obvious beach destinations — Radhanagar at sunset, a private stretch of Neil Island sand, a sunrise snorkel before the day-trippers arrive. For families, the mix of gentle history, easy beaches and supervised first-dives makes it one of the most rewarding domestic trips going. It's an island holiday that works across the small groups we plan for, which is the whole point.
For divers, this is among the best water in the country — visibility regularly past thirty metres, and named sites off Havelock like the Aquarium, the Lighthouse and Barracuda City that experienced divers cross India for, with twenty-plus dive sites in all. But the islands reward the unhurried traveller too: the sunset at Chidiya Tapu, where the light turns the whole bay gold and the forest goes quiet; the black volcanic rocks and clear shallows of Kalapathar on Havelock; the coral rock bridge on Neil at low tide. The reason it all looks untouched is structural — near-zero industrial pollution and some of India's strictest marine-protection rules — so what you see underwater is genuinely some of the healthiest reef left in the Indian Ocean, not a managed approximation of it.
Havelock — officially Swaraj Dweep — is the island most people come for, and it earns its billing: Radhanagar on the west coast for the sunsets, Kalapathar's black rocks and turquoise shallows on the east for the sunrises, and the dive schools that make it the diving capital of India. Getting there is part of the planning we take off your hands — there's no direct flight from Ahmedabad, so we route you via Chennai or Kolkata, about five to seven hours all in, and pre-book the premium catamaran ferries between Port Blair, Havelock and Neil that are the backbone of the trip. Miss one of those and the whole itinerary dominoes; hold them in advance and the islands unfold exactly as they should.
Havelock's Beach No. 7, repeatedly ranked among Asia's finest — a long curve of white sand backed by forest, best at the hour the light goes gold and the day crowds thin. The beach that puts the Andamans on every list, walked at the right time.
Port Blair's Kala Pani — the colonial prison where India's freedom fighters were held — and the evening light-and-sound show that tells their story against the dark. One of the country's most quietly moving heritage hours, and the right place to begin the islands.
A beginner Discover Scuba dive at Elephant Beach with a certified instructor — no experience needed, shallow calm water, full supervision — or a pressurised-helmet sea-walk on the ocean floor at North Bay, the most popular activity here for non-swimmers. Some of the healthiest coral and the best visibility in the Indian Ocean, made reachable for everyone in the family.
Smaller, slower and more rustic than Havelock — the natural coral rock bridge best seen at low tide, the empty white sand of Laxmanpur at sunset, and the vivid shallow reef off Bharatpur you can snorkel straight from the beach. The island that slows the trip right down before you fly home.
Ross Island, once the colonial capital and "the Paris of the East," now ruins reclaimed by deer and banyan roots — and North Bay, the gateway reef thick with ornamental fish. A day of history and coral a short ferry from Port Blair.
A night kayak through water that glows electric blue with every paddle stroke — bioluminescent plankton lighting up the wake and the fish darting beneath you. It only works on the darker, moonless nights, so we plan it around the lunar calendar; it's one of the most magical and least-expected experiences anywhere in India.
Download a sample seven-day itinerary for Andaman — pacing, day-by-day notes, what's included, and how we'd reshape it around your dates and your style.