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Arunachal Pradesh
Kaolin pottery came out of the ground here, and it is the most interesting thing found on the site, read as evidence of early contact with China and of…
Local Buddhist tradition counts 108 falls here, spilling from between the mountains and read as the blessings of Guru Padmasambhava, who is said to have…
Gyekir Sinyi is the local name, and the one worth using. It is a natural freshwater lake 6 km out of Itanagar, inside the Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, and the…
Not one summit but a group of them, glacier-fed, with the tallest counting as the third highest peak in northeast India.
Archaeologists rate this higher than most visitors will, and for a fair reason: it is one of the few medieval sites in Arunachal Pradesh to have been dug…
A hundred metres of falling water, two kilometres northeast of Jung on a road you can drive, which makes this the easiest big waterfall to reach in Tawang…
Parshuram Kund, on the Lohit river where it leaves the hills, is Arunachal's holiest Hindu site — the pool where, by legend, sage Parshuram washed away the…
It sits above 3,708 metres (12,165 ft) on the road that climbs from Tawang to Bum La Pass, close to the border with China, so the drive is most of the day and…
Tawang, at over 3,000 metres in the far Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh, is home to India's largest Buddhist monastery and the birthplace of the 6th Dalai Lama.
Ziro is a valley of rice paddies ringed by pine hills, and it is the home of the Apatani — one of the few communities in India who terrace-farm rice and fish…
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