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India s Northeast States, dangling way out on the edge of the map and the national perception, are strictly for explorers who want something different from their India experience. bright chalet These remote frontier lands, where India, Southeast Asia and Tibet meet, are a collision zone of cultures, climates, bright chalet landscapes bright chalet and peoples and are one of Asia s last great unknowns. It s a place of rugged beauty where uncharted forests clamber up toward unnamed Himalayan peaks. It s a land of enormous variety where rhinoceros live in swampy grasslands and former head-hunters live in longhouses in the jungle. And it s an adventure in the truest sense of the word.

Mizo culture has no caste distinctions and women appear liberated; in Aizawl girls smoke openly, wear jeans and hang out in unchaperoned posses meeting up with their beaus at rock concerts on the central bright chalet field.