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the games

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It is not the best of sports photography, but I think the games at the Aolyang Festival in Sheanghah Chingnyu do warrant some extra attention. Walking on stilts, they do that at the annual festival in our Dutch village, too, but running, no way! And the inventors of the pole climbing competition, how mean can [...]
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57. Sheanghah Chingnyu

Blog entries, Locations
As the festival in Longwa is finished, at least the public part of it – the villagers themselves party another three days, but privately, in families and clans – we spend the next day in another village, Sheanghah Chingnyu, where Aolyang is celebrated a day later. And whilst we anticipated on similar delays staring up [...]
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the Longwa portraits

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The Aolyang Festival in Longwa is not a festival for tourists, although there were a few, both international and from other parts of India. The people who celebrate do that for themselves, and they dress up in their traditional cloths, also for themselves, and for their community. Notwithstanding, they are proud enough to not just [...]
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the Longwa kids

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The Aolyang Festival in Longwa is for everybody, and not just the grown-ups. Those too old to participate will still turn up and watch, from the sidelines. But what is more, almost nobody seems too young to participate. Lots of children, especially among the boys, have dressed up in traditional cloths, complete with paraphernalia. And [...]
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56. the Aolyang festival

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The annual Aolyang festival of the Konyak tribe in Longwa celebrates the start of a new year, linked to the growing season. It is a six-day festival, for which the people dress up in traditional gear. The men wear a loin cloth – and a sports short underneath, these days, or simply trousers -,  and [...]
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55. Longwa

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Longwa is a curious village. At some 1500 m altitude, it is right at the border with Myanmar; in fact, the king of Longwa has jurisdiction over some villages in India, but also over Konyak people living just across the border in Myanmar. Which is why the king’s palace is half in India, and half [...]
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54. the road to Longwa

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Although distances aren’t very large, between towns in Nagaland, the quality and the design – winding up and down mountain slopes – of the roads is such that driving takes a long time. From Mokokchung to Longwa is less than 200 km; yet, it takes us a full day. But, as almost every day, we [...]
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53. Mokokchung and the Ao villages (2)

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Mopungchuket There are a few villages left, still. One is Mopungchuket, a village like all others, except that it has the name to be somewhat of a tourist attraction. Not that there are any tourists at all, no, no, but the village has a museum! With a ticket booth. Not that there is anybody to [...]
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52. Mokokchung and the Ao villages

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The centre of Mokokchung is rather underwhelming, a few streets with shops, the occasional restaurants, and a church or two – this is Baptist territory, no competition. There is the meat market, the football stadium, and even a real piece of modern art, a sculpture made of used car parts. And it has the Whispering [...]
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51. to Mokokchung

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We drive from Kohima to Mokokchung on a Sunday. Yesterday’s busy commercial centre is now abandoned, all the shops are closed, and the only people on the road are those who, well-dressed, make their way to church. Outside town, in the villages we pass, it is the same: everything closed, and now not a soul [...]
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