1000 Awesome Things About India

Go barefoot to the Andamans. This is a place of pilgrimage. You need to have the faith, you need to believe: there are no deities, no shrines, no monuments. But yes, if you are pagan and would genuflect to a spiny thorny woody leafy decades old tree, if you would stop to hear birdsong, if you would pray that there always be a sea and a forest, if you would revere the place enough to collect all your plastic and take it back with you, and promise never to return, and never to tell anyone about this place, so that it remains there, suspended on its latitude and longitude, alone, unspoilt, self absorbed and ever growing, then and only then must you go to the Andamans.

Havelock Island is largely untouched by humankind too—visited by a mere 10,000 tourists a year (compared with the millions swarming Phuket across the water). That means plenty of room on the beach for everyone. Beach No. 7 is the prettiest (sand flies aside), but there's Ayurvedic massage and the island's best restaurant on No. 5. Either way, with a coconut-shell sundowner in hand, you'll realize that nondescript names don't mean a thing. Because Beaches No. 5 and No. 7, like the perfumes by Chanel, are heady, lingering and utterly timeless.  

The Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, are really India's secret paradise.Stunning beaches, pristine coral reefs, tropical jungle, a rich wildlife, active volcanoes, the possibility to meet swimming elephants and colourful big fishes- all in one place!

I don't need to say more as the images are self-explaining. With this project of listing '1000 Awesome Things About India' , I am discovering many places/food/cultures/people in India that seem unimaginable.. However,Not all make it to this list but they all are worth a try.