Home sweet home! Or in Andaman, hut sweet mud hut!
You'd have thought after three days at sea we'd be in search of a little luxury, and you thought right. There was no way we were gonna dangle from trees in our hammocks, so a mud hut it was.
Pooja was a lovely place complete with international flavour that provided us with our first jaw-dropping sights of the islands. Just yards from am idylic beach, Pooja is tucked away in a quiet corner of Havelock one of the Andaman's busiest destinations. This place was perfect, picture perfect. Elephants walk the beach while we sit back and sip coffee. A single road links us to the handful of other resorts dotted around, which include Beach Number 7 (a top five beach in the world according to Time Out magazine).
What was meant as just a couple of days soon became a week, I think the pictures show why! Met some cracking characters here - a big heads up to Luca, the yanks, Adam, Yanir & Carmel, Alan and Carl (how's the head mate?) - which made the stay all the more easy! Of course, this is India so there's always a downside. In the case of Havelock it was a worrying shortage of beer forcing the dozens of thirsty travellers to toast the nights away with warm rum and flat coke! What a shame eh!
And I think Marit's finally forgiven me for making her straddle a motorbike as I learned to use gears on a two-wheeler for the first time. She must've been petrified at the thought of clining onto the rusty motor, but it wasn't long before we were clocking up the kilometres and blazing a dusty trail.
Put quite simply, paradise.
You'd have thought after three days at sea we'd be in search of a little luxury, and you thought right. There was no way we were gonna dangle from trees in our hammocks, so a mud hut it was.
Pooja was a lovely place complete with international flavour that provided us with our first jaw-dropping sights of the islands. Just yards from am idylic beach, Pooja is tucked away in a quiet corner of Havelock one of the Andaman's busiest destinations. This place was perfect, picture perfect. Elephants walk the beach while we sit back and sip coffee. A single road links us to the handful of other resorts dotted around, which include Beach Number 7 (a top five beach in the world according to Time Out magazine).
What was meant as just a couple of days soon became a week, I think the pictures show why! Met some cracking characters here - a big heads up to Luca, the yanks, Adam, Yanir & Carmel, Alan and Carl (how's the head mate?) - which made the stay all the more easy! Of course, this is India so there's always a downside. In the case of Havelock it was a worrying shortage of beer forcing the dozens of thirsty travellers to toast the nights away with warm rum and flat coke! What a shame eh!
And I think Marit's finally forgiven me for making her straddle a motorbike as I learned to use gears on a two-wheeler for the first time. She must've been petrified at the thought of clining onto the rusty motor, but it wasn't long before we were clocking up the kilometres and blazing a dusty trail.
Put quite simply, paradise.
