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Arunachal Pradesh - the land of dawn lit mountains
Published: January 25th 2010Asia » India » Arunachal Pradesh » Bomdila
January 25th 2010
Having visited Sikkim in 2008, which had mesmerized us with its natural beauty and grandeur, we decided to visit the land of Seven Sisters, as the seven North eastern states of India a collectively called. So in May, 2009 we embarked upon our journey to Arunachal Pradesh, the easternmost state of India and aptly named as the 'land to dawn lit mountains'. We started from New Delhi and took a flight to Guwahati, the capital of Assam and reached their late in the afternoon. We took a pre-paid taxi from the Airport itself (we were charged Rs.2200/- for the journey) and embarked upon the next phase of our journey to Tezpur. We reached Tezpur late in the evening and booked into a Hotel for overnight stay. From Tezpur one can embark for onward journey to Arunachal ... read more
June 17th 2008
Dileep Muktan pulled over his car at Bhalukpong, where soldiers watched over every vehicle entering Arunachal Pradesh. After the driver entered his name and car number in the register, the army clerk inspected our inner-line permits. All clean. Two shops farther, a liquor shop awaits us. Arunachal Pradesh was the cheapest of all our destinations, when it came to foreign liquor. But what bowled us over was the ingenious brew called rakshi, lower in price but higher in spirit. After chasing a bus which left us at a roadside dhaba in Orang and fleeing from a group of rickshahwallahs in Tezpur last night, we terribly needed a drink. We fix it in the speeding car, reminiscing our nocturnal adventure. We were sipping lal tea (black tea) at the dhaba when the conductor smiled at us and ... read more
May 18th 2007
Once a not so long time ago one man and his friend wanted to visit some of the north-eastern states of India... But little did they know that this was not so easy... To visit most of those states a permit is needed and to get such a permit one often has to be with 4 people or more or be a (not de facto) married couple... Depending on which state one wants to visit... So they came to Guwahati, the gateway to the northeast in the hope of finding other people with the same desires... Little hope had they of finding such people, as so far all the people they knew who had been to Assam and some of the other north-eastern states said that they had met no other tourists... But lo! They were ... read more
