Northeast India festivals you should experience at least once
Northeast India has a way of making you slow down. You hear drums from somewhere down the road. Someone’s cooking a dish you’ve never tried. People are dressed in traditional clothes, children are running around, and suddenly the festival…
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Arunachal Pradesh travel guide: everything you need to know
Arunachal Pradesh is where the road starts getting interesting. You leave the plains of Assam, climb into the hills, cross rivers that look far too large for the road beside them, and eventually find yourself surrounded by forests, monasteries, mountain…
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7-day Meghalaya itinerary: Shillong, Cherrapunji and Dawki
Meghalaya packs a ridiculous amount into a small corner of Northeast India. In 7 days, you can go from Shillong’s cafés and pine-covered hills to Cherrapunji’s waterfalls, then finish beside the clear waters of the Umngot River in Dawki. This…
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20 hidden places in Northeast India you should visit
Northeast India gets plenty of attention for places like Shillong, Tawang, Gangtok and Kaziranga. Go a little farther, though, and the crowds thin out quickly. You’ll find tiny mountain villages, forest roads, strange rock formations, clear rivers and…
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Best time to visit Northeast India
Northeast India covers 8 states, and the weather can change dramatically between places like Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. So the best month depends on what you actually want to see. For most travelers, October to April is the…
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10-Day Northeast India itinerary: where should you go?
Ten days sounds like plenty until you look at Northeast India on a map. Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim can easily swallow a month. For a 10-day trip, you need to pick a compact route and stick with it.…
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10 best Northeast India destinations for first-time travelers
Northeast India can feel like a completely different trip every few hours. You can start with a busy city, drive into misty mountains, stop at a monastery, eat smoked pork for lunch, and end the day somewhere that gets so quiet you can hear the river…
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Best places to visit in Northeast India
Northeast India is the kind of place where a 4-hour drive can completely change the scenery. You can leave the traffic of Guwahati in the morning, pass through tea gardens and forests, and end up looking at snow-covered mountains by evening. Then there…
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