Arunachal was a mystery place for not so long ago. The state is very pristine and primitive which attracts me to it. The tourist places which I could find over the internet are very far from each other and takes hours to days to get from one place to other. Our hitchhiking will be put to test in this state for sure. Hope we can find enough rides to hitchhike our way in this beautiful place....
Very little information available for Manipur over Internet. We might visit this state after Nagaland as the connectivity is more from Dimapur/Kohima. Our first stop in this pristine state is the capital city of Imphal. Some of the places that we want to cover are War Cemeteries Ima Keithel Zoological Gardens Apart from the city of Imphal, the places that we dare not to miss are:...
We need an Inner Line Permit to get into the state. We’ll start from Guwahati and reach our first stop in Mizoram - Aizwal We want to get a night view of the city as we heard that it is quite beautiful. Some of the places we don’t want to miss in Mizoram are: Tamdil: 85 km drive from Aizawal - will try to go on a boat ride here....
Need ILP to get into the state, can be taken in Shillong or Guwahati. First Stop in the state will be at Dimapur which is the commercial capital of the state. We might go and see the Medieval Ruins of the Kachari kingdom. Next we plan to head to the Capital city of Kohima. There are quite a few places to see in and around this place. Some of them that we plan to visit are...
Not much information is available regarding places to see in Tripura apart from its tourism website. Collected some info although. From the list the only place that excites me is the Jampui Hill Range. There are trekking possibilities and also to see Mizoram and Chittagong from the highest peak in Tripura - Betalongchhip. Here are the places we plan to cover in Tripura: Agartala Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala Chaturdash Devata Badi - Agartala Kamalasagar (artificial lake) - on the border of bangladesh Sepahijala Sanctuary Neer Mahal - 60 kms from Agartala Unakoti - 178 km from Agartala Tripura Sundari Temple - Udaipur Jampui Hill - Trekking, Betalongchhip - highest peak in Tripura Agartala is 24 hrs :( away from Guwahati by road and it traverses through Shillong....
As said earlier, we are setting off on May 5th 2010 from Hyderabad. We travel from Hyderabad to Siliguri in West Bengal by train as we don’t want to make a bbq of ourselves before we even reach the North East. We start our hitchhiking from Siliguri. We are skipping Darjeeling and Sikkim (and feeling very bad about it) as we have to complete the entire North East before the Monsoons cut them off the plains....