The Lohit Valley lies in the easternmost road of India. Mountains here feel virgin, cut down by the river Lohit. When our team had visited, the river was in a phase of transition; the deep […]
Category: Travel Tales
Travel tales from Northeastern India.
World Tourism Day 2014 – Community Development Through Tourism
27th September, 2014 One of the principles of Greener Pastures is to educate the natives of the region about the scope of the tourism in Northeast India and engage them. Recently on 27th September, 2014, […]
Responsible Tourism Project Report: Tree Planting with Jadav Payeng in Assam
Little more than a year back, we’d enthusiastically begun our first responsible tourism project – a fundraiser meant to assist the forest man of India – Jadav Payeng, in his quest to grow more trees […]
Celebrating Reh Festival with the Charming Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh
It’s been a while I sat down and wrote something. Work has kept me busy. In the first week of February, I had visited Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh; a state in Northeastern India. It was an incredible […]
Monsoon In Cherrapunji – A Trip To The Rainiest Wettest Place Of Planet Earth
My and Neil’s trip to the world’s rainiest and wettest place began in Guwahati City, from where it took us a five hour drive to reach our destination Cherrapunji. The journey crossed some splendid scenery […]
The Ledo-Stillwell Road: From India to Burma and China
World War II can be regarded as one of humanity’s breaking point. The tragedy of Hitler’s Europe is well known, but there are also places far away, where the war brought with it the same […]
Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 5,6 – Mighty Valleys Of The Siang River
Continued from here. Day 5 & 6 We woke up to a beautiful and bright sunny morning. The bad weather of the past few days had disappeared, making for a blue sky. Low on money, […]
Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 3,4 – Daporijo, Subansiri And Tagins
Continued from here. Day 3 When in the mountains, the eyes open early in the morning, as if to embrace the cool fresh air. We woke up, finished our morning chores, and left for a […]
Central Arunachal Pradesh Tour – Day 1,2 – Ziro And The Apatanis
Day 1 A week of unbearable summer heat had prompted me and Tushar to plan an escape into the nearby Himalayan ranges of Arunachal Pradesh. Bizarrely, it turned out to be a beautiful drizzly Sunday […]
Chasing Monsoon in Meghalaya – Mawlynnong and the Southeast Khasi Hills
The monsoon is when India receives a blessing from above, which turns the entire country into a lush landscape of greenery. This year, I went chasing the monsoon; as I packed my bags in mid […]
