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32. the Sela Pass

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Tawang is end of the road, sort off, from here you can only continue to China, and that is obviously out of the question. So we need to track back to Dirang, again. On the way back we make a detour to see the Chakzam bridge, an iron suspension bridge built at the end of [...]
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31. the 1962 Sino-Indian War

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I am not going to analyse the Sino-Indian war of 1962 in great detail. In short, parts of the border between China and India have been, are still being disputed, and an important part of the dispute is the border in Arunachal Pradesh. In this area, in particular, the Chinese maintain that Tibet had no [...]
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the Tawang Monastery

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Just because it is such a photogenic place, I have selected a few more photographs of the Tawang monastery, in Arunachal Pradesh, and close to Tibet and Bhutan. It is the biggest Buddhist monastery in India, with some 560 monks in residence. It belongs to the Gelug school of Vajrayana Buddhism and had a religious [...]
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30. Tawang

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Except that there turns out to be another road to Tawang. Since a few years, there is also a Sela tunnel. And the tunnel is open. Until now, that had not been worth mentioning. So after having come down a bit from the road to the pass, which we found closed, we take a turn [...]
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29. the road to Tawang

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We leave Assam behind for the next NE India state, Arunachal Pradesh, home to the largest Buddhist monastery in India, Tawang. We plan to cover the distance, some 430 kms, in two days, also because we climb from Brahmaputra level to around 3100 m, deep in the Himalaya mountains. The Assam part of the journey [...]
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28. the traffic signs

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Most of the time, in a car, I drive myself. Obviously, you look outside, try to appreciate some of the countryside, but mainly, you pay attention to the traffic. And to the traffic signs along the road. Perfunctorily. That is to say, you register the signs, you know what they are supposed to tell you [...]
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27. Guwahati

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If Silchar was the second largest town in Assam, there is a huge difference between number two and number one. Guwahati is easily the biggest town in the North East, and it shows. Even though the spread of rickshaws and tuk-tuks seems to be controlled – there are far fewer here than we have seen [...]
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26. Nartiang

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There is more to Meghalaya then just the root bridges. They proudly promote the cleanest village of Asia – which, coming from The Netherlands, we skipped. Waterfalls and caves, hmm, we have seen those before, and they don’t necessarily excite us that much. There is the lake near Shillong, the state capital, which otherwise doesn’t [...]
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25. Nongriat

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From the capital of Assam state, Guwahati, where we took a plane to, to avoid either an impossibly bad road, or a 10 hour detour, we almost immediately left for Meghalaya, yet another one of the Seven Sisters NE India states. Meghalaya is located to the north of Bangladesh, we actually have seen it from [...]
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24. Silchar

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Having arrived in Silchar, the second largest town in Assam state, effectively means that we skip the states of Mizoram and Manipur, two other NE Indian states with mesmerizing names, beautiful nature and tribal people  – Kukis amongst them. But Manipur (the heart of Kukiland) is a no-go area, because of civil unrest and smuggling [...]
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