Friends, we're about to get off this prison on the sea and go out to this beautiful tropical island here in India.
It's the beach and I'll tell you exactly where the hell I am.
You guys see this lighthouse over here that is where we're going to, that is Kalpeni Island.
I just stepped foot into Lakshadweep.
And I'll never forget it because this is my second last place that I need to visit in India,
before I've been to every single union territory and state in India.
I just have Odisha left to go and has just stepped into this tropical paradise. And I've just seen the number plate LD.
I always remember the first time I see a number plate from somewhere far off like
Lakshadweep. You won't see that number plate elsewhere in India, I guarantee you.
People love to be on the microphone and yelling when I'm trying to talk. Repeating the same thing.
We just arrived at the resort and they're taking us out straightaway to do activities.
I'll tell you why and it's sick and something has happened.
We're in these little boats now. We're going out to the snorkeling and kayaking spot now. Just look at how clear this water is.
Beautiful turquoise
And we saw on the way here massive turtles swimming through this water.
Tons of fish as well. It is a magnificent place to diving.
Anyway, I'm here alone. I'm not here with Manisha, my wife. She's back in Delhi.
Actually her, her father's running for the Haryana elections, so she's busy.
Doing this helping campaign for the election. So, I'm alone here this time.
You guys remember I took you guys to the Andaman Islands.
It's kind of like this place like Lakshadweep but it's much harder to get Lakshadweep.
There's only a few options and even when you do get here, you have to take boats everywhere.
And there's no kind of ferry system that runs all the time. It can get quite expensive.
I'm making a entire another video on that on how to travel here.
We're on our way out to the tiny island right in front of us.
Check out this water, I'm walking through. Don't be mistaken guys, this is India.
You might think it strange that we arrived here when the Sun is sitting on Kalpeni Island.
Well, the cruise ship was meant to arrive here at 8:00 in the morning. I was meant to be here. We arrived here at 4:00.
Yeah.
The ship was like 13 hours late leaving Kochi and you know, the problem is like
maintenance isn't taken seriously here.
S,o the day of the cruise they were still
fixing the damn cruise ship. That's just must be done in the four months coming up to tourist season.
I was on the first, the first boat ride.
So yes, they just hadn't kept the boat maintained and they were fixing it on the day the cruisers leave of course,
because we left 13 hours late in the middle of the night.
And basically I've missed out on a whole day here on Kalpeni Island, so
this blog will be short, but I will be taking you to Minicoy and Kavaratti, two
incredible islands here at Lakshadweep. We will do that in other videos and I will show you how to travel around here as well
and give you the full on Lakshadweep experience. Before the Sun goes, let's go snorkeling with the fish. Eh
Can you guys see these things in the water they're freaking worms. I was like standing on them. They're not stone people.
What are these things?
Let's see what we can find guys. Let's do this right now.
Whoa, guys that was just heaven being down there with the fishes. Oh my god!
The snorkeling here is one of the best in India and as good if not better than the Andaman Islands.
It's a lot easier to get to the fish here and in Lakshadweep and the amount of fish that was down there.
Oh, it's beautiful.
It's so peaceful be down there snorkeling with them. It's a real experience.
You guys have to try this. If you guys go for scuba,
then you're gonna see ten times the amount of fish down there. They'll take you down to about ten meters.
And it's quite an epic experience as it is in Andamans.
But apparently, Lakshadweep is it to be the best place in India for scuba diving. So I'll do it in another video.
I was gonna do it right here today, but
you know because the ship was late
can't do it. So yeah, step up on the kayaks now, Eh. Cruise around this beautiful, beautiful lagoon.
I got back to the main island behind us. Actually, I forgot my selfie stick. It's there back on the beach.
So we're going back there now and the sun's coming down, the waters changed kind of color again. It's gone like
even more kind of greeny blue. There's a massive sandbar here.
You could actually walk between some of these islands through the sandbars.
Yeah, when the tide goes out, like it is right now. Incredible, right?
Selfie stick retrieved and Let's go back. Let's see what dinner's like. I've always wondered what they eat here in Lakshadweep.
Just when I think it's over there's always more.
So, we are going on a little kind of sightseeing tour around this, this beautiful island right now.
We have about an hour left until the Sun is totally gone. So they're doing their best
fit in all they can into the few hours that we had here on Kalpeni.
It took us about two minutes,
to reach the very end of Kalpeni island. It is that small and while you're riding along the entire island on the left
and right-hand side, you can see the ocean there you go ocean.
And ocean it is so thin.
And like I said earlier on one side, you've got the Maldives. This is very, very similar to the Maldives except on this island you have
Malabar, more of Malabar culture and we're gonna go to Mincoy which is more of a
Maldives culture there. Actually Andamans, someone just told me, it came from a volcano.
This these are natural island here. So they've got like a kind of like a park and
there's massive sandbar that goes all away to the end of this beautiful island. It's very green Island.
Let's see how far we can get. Look at these corals we're walking on.
I can't get out there. Look at that.
There is deep water keeping me away. Probably could make it.
But not gonna try, tides gonna come.
I'm the only foreigner on this crew.
So I've got to meet a lot of people. Everybody wants to know where I am from you know
and my story but actually not everybody has been amazing.
This lady came up to me today after I'd finished flying my drone and she goes to me you were filming the women's
changing room and
man, as soon as I heard an allegation like that, I got so scared because
How can, how can someone say that that I was filming in the women's changing room when I wasn't she didn't know what I was
filming. I was filming the island from afar for you guys. That wasn't filming over the women's changing room.
I can see why she thought that cuz I was standing next to the changing room flying the drone.
It just happened to be where I got good reception or where I was flying the drone.
So here she got really worried and I just told her,
Okay, lady you're gonna give me these kind of allegations take my phone take the drone and delete whatever you want.
I was not filming the women's changing room. Why would I do that? I'm filming this beautiful island for my youtube channel.
Okay. So anyway gave her the footage and of course, there's nothing there. I wasn't filming over the women's change room or anything.
I think yeah,
I don't know what her problem was. I would not want to film her in the changing room either but I
wasn't doing and don't go around throwing allegations like that.
It's disgusting to be accused of something something so serious like that.
So yeah,
learned my lesson.
Fly the drone in a secluded spot away from people and then you won't have a
stupid woman like that coming up to you
worrying about absolutely
nothing.
And actually there is an amazing lighthouse in the very center of Kalpeni Island
but we can't go there because we've run out of time the sun is gone.
You can get an amazing panoramic view from up there. It's really, really
incredible, let's go back. Let's see what's on the menu for food now. Do a quick food review.
We just had dinner and now there's the locals performing a dance for us dinner was awesome. There was chole, chicken.
It was rice, bread, this beautiful kind of onion salad. And did I say?
Kingfisher as well.
These guys here at Lakshadweep know how to eat. And there's a veg buffet for veg too but you really, really want to eat
the non-veg in a Muslim area like this.
Alright guys, so we are gonna somehow make our way back to the boat in this pitch-black dark.
This is a remote island, right? And there's barely any lights here.
So somehow we're gonna make our way back now through the ship as soon as the dancing finishes.
Long live India.