Tuesday, February 14, 2012

City Tour

14th February, 2012 - Tuesday (Day 5):


After discovering the Andaman Cellular Jail we visited Anthropological Museum, Forest Museum, Fisheries Marine Museum,  Naval Marine Museum (Samudrika) and Chatam Saw Mill (one of the oldest & largest in Asia) 

Facts about Anthropological Museum:










It depicts the life of Palaeolithic Islanders and shows their houses and tools used by them for living.
Facts about Chatham Saw Mill:








A small island, connected to Port Blair by a bridge. It is famous for its saw mill, considered to be one of the oldest and the largest in Asia operating by the department of Forest & Environment and a big store house for different varieties of wood including Marble, Padauk, Gurjan and Satin wood.. The mill was built by the British in 1836. The island also has the second largest wharf in the Andamans.


Photography: R.Bhuvanesh Babu

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