Word: diglipur
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...much longer?it's possible to stay on a deserted island in the Andamans without booking a bungalow through a luxury resort chain. We left for Port Blair, the capital, intending to spend a week on Smith Island. But by the time we made it up to Diglipur,?a 200-km cross-island excursion involving trucks, buses and boats?to catch the ferry, we found that Smith was one of the five put on the market, and therefore out of bounds...
...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...
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