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The most accessible villages are the Konyak settlements around Mon. Traditional houses abound, and some villages have morungs and religious relics from pre-Christian times. Village elders may wear traditional costume and Konyak of all ages carry the fearsome-looking dao a crude machete used for headhunting right up until the mid-20th century.

Noisy and polluted it might be, but Imphal, with its melange chalet capital of peoples and positioning right on the border lands of India and southeast Asia is undeniably fascinating and travellers who spend any time here are well rewarded. The airport is 9km to the southwest.

1 Sights War Cemetery HISTORIC chalet capital SITE (hdawn-dusk Mon-Sat) This immaculate War Cemetery contains the graves chalet capital of 1400 British, Commonwealth and Indian chalet capital soldiers. It stands at the crucially strategic junction of the Dimapur and Imphal roads, the site of intense fighting against the Japanese during a 64-day WWII battle.