We finally arrived at Chennai station at noon, and found a place where we could ‘check’ our bags in for the 10 days we would be in Port Blair. Then we found a taxi and headed to the airport where we booked our flights to Port Blair, they were the next morning at 5 in the morning…now came the truth time, do we A.) Book a hotel and sleep peacefully for most of the night and head back to the airport in time for our flight or B.) Spend that money on shopping and sleep in the airport? Hmmm…hard decision, well not really…we are girls…so shopping won hands down!
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At the airport...finally! |
We found a taxi guy that told us he could take us to a shop that stayed open ‘til 11pm. So the twosome travelers were on their way to Singapore Shoppe paradise. This place was crazy; it had a floor for everything! Shoes, make up, food, clothing … everything! We had so much fun shopping as well as taking pictures people thought we were going crazy! Finally at closing time we made our way back to the airport with thoughts of our next adventure playing in our minds.
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Shopping..on the kids floor I guess |
At the airport we found a bathroom that had a shower! After a much needed clean up session we made our way to the airport restaurant, where Lee and I sat and dined. Later we saw two Israeli guys that we had meet at the train station in Margoa, they had helped us find the correct carriage, as the train ticket numbers are pretty confusing and they had travelled on the train before. We ended up playing card games with these guys until the restaurant closed, which was a little before their flight to, surprise surprise…Port Blair.
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This is what 20 hours on an India train looks like! EWWW! |
We were on the next flight but had a few hours to kill in the mean time, which meant we became part of the airport 3am entertainment, a ‘show’ which Lee and I had become accustomed to partaking in. We plugged in our cell phones to charge them, then began dancing to the tunes playing from the mini speakers all the while painting our toenails…I realize this was probably more personal moments than we needed to share, but we had a blast anyway.
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All cleaned up |
Finally up in the air on our two hour flight, and Lee and I were dead tired! We each got three seats to ourselves, which was amazing as we needed the sleep, we were woken up for breakfast (eggs, mushroom and all that jazz.) Once we arrived in Port Blair we were immediately ushered to a line of foreigners applying for visas, which is really easy (and free)…
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Port Blair |
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