Travel Blog with a focus on North East India
A few days back, I was driving down from Lungro La — a high mountain pass at 14,266 feet above sea level — after visiting the ever-so-gorgeous Sangestar Lake (better known to most as Madhuri Lake). The road down to Tawang was quiet, the air thin, and the scenery nothing short of surreal. And then, …
(continuing from the 1st part of my Sandakphu trek blog) …By the time we reached Tumling, we had realized that from Tumling to Sandapkhu, the rhododendron blooms were pretty much the same as what we had come across so far. In fact less. Also, we were really liking the location, views, and slow life at …
I had been wanting walk the Sandakphu trek route since a while. The aim was not to do it during the best time to visit Sandakphu, that is during one of the dry months when the sky is clear and you get great views of Sandalphu from multiple places on the trekking trail itself. My …
I have lost count of how many times I have driven the Guwahati – Shillong stretch. On this weekend, we were again heading to Cherrapunjee (more on that later) but there was no way I was taking the usual route. I had heard enough about how picturesque the Guwahati – Mairang route was but had …
The trail we were on was slippery, the sky overcast with dark monsoon clouds hovering overhead and a roaring pahaadi river below that was nothing less than scary. It was a tricky situation to drive in and to be honest, we were on our toes all through the forty minutes or so of the drive. One small …