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Blog: Western Arunachal Pradesh
Date: May 12th 2008

One of my main reasons for traveling to Arunachal Pradesh in the first place was to visit the Tawang valley in the far north-west corner of the state. This is definitely the Himalayas and very Tibetan. In fact before the British took control of it, it was a district of Tibet. Almost as soon as we entered Arunachal, we began to see Tibetan prayer flags. The Kameng river which we traveled up for the ... read more







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