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Arunachal Pradesh Travel Tips


Insider advice for your Arunachal Pradesh vacation

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krishnag
Explorer
Dec 5, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Curtain 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
After I returned to Delhi, I read disturbing reports in the papers about China claiming quite categorically that Arunachal is not a part of India. How long will this debate go on? Arunachal Pradesh is close to Tibet across the border. The Dalai Lama had crossed into India across the Himalayas. He... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 5, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
A similar sentiment is obvious the next day when I step inside a local “dhaba”(wayside restaurant) to eat. I am informed that I am welcome to eat “their” food; however that “Indian” food is also available! Thus the divide between “them” and India is palpable. Anyway,... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 4, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
In Itanagar I run into this interesting man of the Nishi tribe. He is wearing western clothes. However he has not abandoned his headgear, a woven bamboo basket-hat adorned with a hornbill beak and a woven belt slung across his midriff carrying a dagger. He stops by, intrigued by my camera that... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 4, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Mijo is twenty-six years old; clad in Levi jeans he does not appear to be different from his counterparts in Delhi; only the three tattoed dots on his chin give his Apa-tani identity away.
Mijo has moved away from his tribal moorings. He runs a tourist agency operating from Bomdila, a... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 4, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
In the evening I was inside an Apa-tani hut, sitting and listening to the village priest. The wizened priest’s face caught the warm glow of the fire lighted at the hearth . Hunks of meat were left to dry on the rectangular bamboo frame atop the fire, the frames blackened and scented with... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 3, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
What all the different tribes share is a belief in spirits; these spirits are often believed to be mischievous, sometimes downright nasty and therefore they have to be placated. Each house is equipped with spirit-chasers specific to that tribe. In addition they have to be appeased with bribes of... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 3, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
I headed straight for Ziro located in the north-west of the state. The roads though narrow were well maintained. We passed through some breathtakingly lush tropical forests before the gentle hillsides gave way to a clearing studded with acres of water-logged paddy fields fringed with clusters of... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 3, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Culture 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
The state of Arunachal Pradesh has a rich diversity of tribal people. These people of owed allegiance to the particular tribe they belonged to. Were they even aware of a larger identity, that of being an Indian? This was the question in my mind as I set out to explore this young state of “The... [more]
krishnag
Explorer
Dec 2, 2007
Behind the Bamboo Curtain 5 stars
Arunachal Pradesh Chapter of Travel Blog: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
The North-east was never officially curtained off from the rest of India. Nevertheless a veil always existed shrouding its misty mountains. When I was in college two of my classmates were from the North-East. In the way they talked, dressed and kept to themselves, they came through virtually as... [more]

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