Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The toughest place to visit in the world: North Sentinel Island

                                                                             جزيرة North Sentinel                                                            



  There are many wonderful places for its beautiful scenery, which is seeking an individual to visit and enjoy the scenery of great natural and feeling relaxed and calm, but there are also other places of difficult had due to the distance or difficulties Iqaha the individual in order to reach those places, and today we highlight the most difficult place can be visited by the individual .

The island of North Sentinel is part of the islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal in the ocean between Myanmar and Indonesia, and is home to one tribe only, and people quite far away from contact with the outside world, and believe that they are the first people who came out of the descendants of the first humans who came out of Africa.

And the age of the island about 60,000 years is not known where the population could be down about 40 or can be a high of about 500.

The way of welcoming visitors from strange ways no different from what tomorrow was a person friend or foe The way to welcome the launch of spears and arrows on the visitor, do not care about the gifts coming to them from food and clothing to understand a hostile until they refused to rescue missions after the tsunami in 2004.

In the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in December 2004 that hit the Indian Ocean and reached a group of rescuers to take out the people the island in a helicopter belonging to the Indian Navy, where they wanted to help the survivors of the people of the island but was little chance for the Indian Navy and tried in spite of the odds then Gsagat food parcels on the infant, but it was in received by veterans of the people on the island who are in dense forest and shot arrows at the helicopter.

No one can know anything about that tribe nor about their culture, where they have a strange language and customs are unknown as to their settlements secret in the dense forest, but only known about them because they do not Ezron only live on fishing and fruit in the forest, tubers, wild boar, lizards and honey .

Fall under the sovereignty of the island, but India does not know what the population of the island is India originally, but the Indian government imposed a buffer on the island with an area of ​​3 miles to keep the tourists and explorers, after failed attempts to communicate with the inhabitants of the island to fail since 1964.

In 1896 escaped prisoners from British jails and the cover to the shores of the island of North Sentinel and a few days later his body was found by chance near the beach and had been throwing darts and wounding shares led to the defection of his throat, and in 1974 went a set to make a film documentary about the island, but was injured the film's director 8 feet in length with an arrow in his thigh was not included only a small number of recordings.

In one of the trips anthropology sponsored by the Indian government to the island in the late 1980's and early 1990's were reports that the residents were running backs for scientists, researchers, and sitting as if they defecate and intent insult visitors where they are not welcome on the island.

The last contact with the island in 2006, where he was killed two fishermen while they were fishing illegally within the range of the island.

Many believe that it may be best to leave the island and its people their customs and traditions and lack of urgency to get out to the outside world and contact with him to urge that they adapt to living on the island may be the exit and come into contact with the outside world is very difficult as they may Aonon safe from many diseases, but surprisingly, they do not accept any foreign aid and how their view of strangers until they are trying to kill them and do not want to visit one of them never.
   

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