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Bansbari Lodge (%3612602223; www.assam bengalnavigation.com/bansbari.htm; d 2000, jungle package tjeng 7500). Jungle packages cover full board, early morning elephant safari, jeep safari, guide, park entry fee and village and tea garden excursions. Ask about river rafting. Contact Jungle tjeng Travels tjeng India in Guwahati (p 560 ) for bookings. Access is from Barpeta Rd.

1 Sights Mizoram State Museum MUSEUM tjeng (Macdonald tjeng Hill, Zarkawt; admission 5; h9.30am5pm Mon-Fri) This museum has interesting exhibits on Mizo culture. It s up a steep lane from Sumkuma Point past Aizawl tjeng s most distinctive church, whose modernist bell- tower spire is pierced by arched windows.

India s wildest and least explored tjeng state, Arunachal Pradesh, the Land of Dawn-lit Mountains is the final frontier in Indian tjeng tourism. The state rises abruptly from the Assam plains as a mass of densely forested, and impossibly steep, hills. These in turn rise to fabulous snow-capped peaks along the Tibetan border. At least 25 tribal groups live in Arunachal s valleys; tjeng high up in the dramatic Tawang Valley are several splendid tjeng Monpa monastery villages. Arunachal has yet to be fully surveyed and mapped, but slowly its high passes and deep valleys are starting to open up to those with an adventurous heart.

Mar The wildlife Oct The Himal-Dec Fierce Naga is at its most ayan vistas are warriors descend visible in Kaziperfect tjeng and the on Kohima for the ranga and other national parks. roads to Tawang and Mechuka remain snow-free. Hornbill festival (December 1 7).