India
North East India
Living-root bridges, tea gardens and the cleanest air in India
Why go
The North East is what people hope India still has somewhere — misty hills, honest villages, and roads with no traffic. A first trip usually pairs Meghalaya (Shillong, the Cherrapunji waterfalls, the double-decker living-root bridge at Nongriat and the startlingly clear Umngot river at Dawki) with Assam (a tea-estate bungalow near Jorhat and a rhino safari in Kaziranga). It takes some driving and a flexible mind, and it rewards both.
Trip highlights
- Double-decker living-root bridge, Nongriat
- Boating the clear Umngot river at Dawki
- Nohkalikai and Seven Sisters waterfalls
- Rhino safari in Kaziranga National Park
Ways to travel North East India
Meghalaya core
Shillong, Cherrapunji and Dawki with a guided trek to the Nongriat root bridges.
Meghalaya + Assam
Add a heritage tea-bungalow stay near Jorhat and jeep safaris in Kaziranga.
Add Arunachal
Extend to the Tawang monastery and the Sela Pass for the high-mountain North East (permits arranged).
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North East India
North East Explorer — Meghalaya & Assam
Shillong, the Cherrapunji waterfalls and the Nongriat root bridges, the clear Umngot river at Dawki, then a tea bungalow and a rhino safari in Kaziranga.
North East India
Tawang & Sela Pass — The Monastery Circuit
The great road trip into Arunachal Pradesh — Bomdila and Dirang, the climb over Sela Pass, and two nights in Tawang for the monastery, the war memorials and, permits allowing, the India–China border at Bumla Pass.
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