Travelogues – Page 2 – The Northeast India Travel Blog

The Remote Lands of Lohit Valley in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh

The Lohit Valley lies in the easternmost road of India. Mountains here feel virgin, cut down by the river Lohit. When our team had visited, the river was in a phase of transition; the deep turquoise water of dry winters turning mud red. The April sky had been a mix of rain and blue, and…
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Responsible Tourism Project Report: Tree Planting with Jadav Payeng in Assam

Little more than a year back, we’d enthusiastically begun our first responsible tourism project – a fundraiser meant to assist the forest man of India – Jadav Payeng, in his quest to grow more trees in the Brahmaputra Valley. With this post today, Greener Pastures is proud to announce that the fundraiser has been successful.…
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Celebrating Reh Festival with the Charming Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh

It’s been a while I sat down and wrote something. Work has kept me busy. In the first week of February, I had visited Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh; a state in Northeastern India. It was an incredible experience and makes me want to share it. It was a short two day trip where I’d gone to be…
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Monsoon In Cherrapunji – A Trip To The Rainiest Wettest Place Of Planet Earth

I and Neil’s trip to the world’s rainiest and wettest place began in Guwahati City, from where it took us a five hour drive to reach our destination Cherrapunji. The journey crossed some splendid scenery of the Khasi Hills, which appeared astonishing green due to the summer monsoon rain. The forests, farmlands and pastures felt…
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The Ledo-Stillwell Road: From India to Burma and China

World War II can be regarded as one of humanity’s breaking point. The tragedy of Hitler’s Europe is well known, but there are also places far away, where the war brought with it the same approach to death. One such is the China-Burma-India (CBI) region which remains not much publicized. It began in 1942 when…
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Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 5,6 – Mighty Valleys Of The Siang River

Continued from here. Day 5 & 6 We woke up to a beautiful and bright sunny morning. The bad weather of the past few days had disappeared, making for a blue sky. Low on money, we first went to an ATM which is the only working machine in the all of Along. There was a…
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Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 3,4 – Daporijo, Subansiri And Tagins

Continued from here. Day 3 When in the mountains, the eyes open early in the morning, as if to embrace the cool fresh air. We woke up, finished our morning chores, and left for a six hour drive to Daporijo. Before leaving Ziro, we spent time visiting a temple devoted to Lord Shiva where a…
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Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 1,2 – Ziro And The Apatanis

Day 1 A week of unbearable summer heat had prompted me and Tushar to plan an escape into the nearby Himalayan ranges of Arunachal Pradesh. Bizarrely, it turned out to be a beautiful drizzly Sunday when we started our journey from Dibrugarh in Assam, driving towards Ziro in central Arunachal Pradesh. I’d heard much about…
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Chasing Monsoon in Meghalaya – Mawlynnong and the Southeast Khasi Hills

The monsoon is when India receives a blessing from above, which turns the entire country into a lush landscape of greenery. This year, I went chasing the monsoon; as I packed my bags in mid June and departed for the state of Meghalaya (translated in English as ‘the abode of clouds’) in northeastern India. This…
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The Lure Of The Lohit River – To Where Eastern India Ends

PROLOGUE Nor I and nether Neil, had ever known that a place called Kibithu exists in the map of the world, until last October, when on one of those romantic evenings that autumn brings to Bangalore, a certain Mr. Bhat gave us a call and asked us to assist him in his travel to Northeastern India. Fortunately, he…
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