1. Visit Once in Andaman’s-Islands Best Places
SON-ET-LUMIERE (SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW):
The Son-et-Lumiere, shown daily inside the Cellular Jail compound at 6:00 PM (Hindi) and 7:15 PM
(English), takes the spectators on a poignant journey back in time and brings back to life the dark chapter
in the islands history when it was used as a penal settlement. The saga of colonial oppression and untold
suffering is narrated with an old banyan tree taking the center stage and recounts the atrocious treatment
imposed on Indian political prisoners as well as their tenacity towards the cause of Indian independence.
THE CELLULAR JAIL (NATIONAL MEMORIAL):
The Cellular Jail, located at Port Blair was completed in the year 1906 and today stands a relic of the past
receiving numerous freedom loving tourists every day. Under British occupation, countless Indian
freedom fighters incarcerated in this very jail were tortured and tormented. A mute witness to these
atrocities, the Jail acquired the name ‘cellular’, because it is entirely made up of individual cells for the
solitary confinement of the prisoners. Originally a seven pronged, puce-colored building with a central
tower acting as its fulcrum and a massive structure comprising honeycomb like corridors, the building
was later damaged and today only three of the seven prongs are intact .