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Half Day City tour to Cellular Jail with Pvt Transfers
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Half day city tour starts with Carbyn's Cove Beach - 7 kms from Port Blair - a coconut palm fringed beach, ideal for swimming, sun-basking & bathing And also Jet Ski-ride is Included. Later you will be proceeding to Cellular Jail & Light n Sound -Cellular jail, one of the biggest jail in Asia, is now a national monument located at Atlanta point. It has got a museum exhibiting the then prison life. Evening (5.30pm) there will be sound and light show about the historical events regarding this place.The prison was known to house many notable Indian activists during the struggle for India's independence. The Cellular Jail is one of the murkiest chapters in the history of the colonial rule in India. The construction of the prison started in 1896 and was completed in 1906. But the history of using the Andaman island as a prison dates back to the Indian rebellion of 1857. The patriots who raised their voice against the British Raj were sent to this Jail, where many perished.
