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The Whispering Palms Beach Resort has 106 rooms that blend Goan decor with contemporary facilities. You will be spoilt for choice between our luxurious Studio Suite Rooms, the spacious Terrace Rooms, and our private Balcony Rooms. The rooms are all surrounded by landscaped gardens and pool views. We concentrate on making your sleep experience extremely comfortable and have spared no expense in the choice of mattress, linen and pillows. Our rooms boast of high ceilings, floor to ceiling windows to let the fresh Goan air infuse the room and a homely décor that gives you a warm feeling. All our rooms are in a multiple room cottage/villa styled layout with rooms on the ground and the first floor. The Pool is the center of the activity with the restaurant and the two bars around it. We have daily evening entertainment and offer interactive activities for guests willing to make more of their holiday. We also provide sightseeing tours of the beautiful, scenic and unique state of Goa.

The Andaman Islands are India’s secret paradise with stunning beaches, pristine coral reefs, dense forests, active volcanoes, swimming elephants, elusive dugongs and big fish all in one place. Barefoot At Havelock is an eco-hideaway in a splendid setting of white sand beach, turquoise seas and tropical rainforest on Beach Number 7, described as ‘’The Best Beach In Asia" (Time Magazine). Rooms • The 10 spacious Nicobari Cottages and eight Andaman Villas are scattered amongst tropical foliage and connected by winding pathways. All have are constructed from natural, regenerable materials and raised on stilts. • The simpler, Nicobari Cottages are more 'indigenous', with bamboo matting walls, local hardwood floors and palm thatch roofs. Interiors are spacious (350 sq.feet) with Balinese teak beds (netted four-posters or twins) and ensuite bathrooms with hot showers. The Duplex Cottage is ideal for families or honeymooners, with a mezzanine level bedroom and bathroom, and an upper level day-room open on three sides to the rainforest. • The air-conditioned Andaman Villas have wood-shingled roofs and walls of Indonesian hardwood. Interiors are more contemporary, with huge netted beds and large floor-to-ceiling windows behind sliding shutters. Bathrooms have Grohe fittings and a glass-roofed shower area with views up into the jungle. Fine Dining • Two kitchens operate at Barefoot - a traditional one with thatched walls and massive wood-fired hearth, and a more contemporary one. Guests also go to sister resort Barefoot Scuba on Beach No.3 for lunch and dinner. If you get lucky on a fishing trip, your catch will be cooked to order – grilled, fried, or curried. Tiger prawns, lobster, crab and other sea food can be ordered with half a day’s notice. Ayurveda And Well Being • Iyengar Yoga Programme: Morning lessons or longer courses are held in the panoramic pavilion between January and April. • Ayurvedic Treatments: There are practised in a bamboo and thatch pavilion looking onto the forest and lily pond. Diving And Snorkelling • Scuba Diving (Dec - May): The Andaman Islands are one of the last frontiers for scuba diving, their waters pristine and unmapped. Corals abound with colourful reef fish, sea turtles, barracuda, tuna, sting rays and the occasional dugong. Barefoot Scuba has a full professional dive centre at Beach No. 3, with PADI courses and recreational dive trips around Havelock and further afield. • Snorkelling: Tropical fish, bright corals and the elusive dugong. Try the sea-grass beds at the southern end of Beach No. 7; or head-up through the mahua forest to the pretty reef and lagoon of Barefoot Cove; or take a dunghi (long-tail boat) and a packed lunch to get dropped off on deserted Elephant Beach, with its unspoiled reef.