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Northeast States

Northeast States

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Northeast States

Includes  Why Go? ...... 566 Thrown across the farthest reaches of , obscured from ...... 566 the greater world by ageless forests and formidable moun- Tezpur...... 571 tain ranges, the Northeast States are one of Asia’s last great . . 577 natural and anthropological sanctuaries. Sharing borders with Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar (Burma) and , ...... 584 these remote frontiers are a region of rugged beauty, and ...... 585 a collision zone of tribal cultures, climates, landscapes ...... 588 and peoples. In this wonderland for adventurers, glacial ...... 589 Himalayan rivers spill onto Assam’s vast floodplains, faith ...... 591 moves mountains on the perilous pilgrimage to Tawang, rhinos graze in Kaziranga’s swampy grasslands and former Agartala...... 591 head-hunters slowly embrace modernity in their ancestral . . . . . 593 longhouses in Nagaland. ...... 593 Of course, it’s not all smooth sailing, with a horde of ob- Cherrapunjee . . . . 597 stacles to battle along the way (bad roads, poor infrastruc- ture and rebel armies, to name a few). In other words, only those with a taste for raw adventure need apply.

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