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374 bird species have been recorded in the park, including such rarities as the whiterumped vulture (which may now be extinct chaletsauquebec in the park), greater spotted eagle and the white-winged duck. Of the big mammals, wild elephants are present as are numerous deer species and a few rarely chaletsauquebec seen tigers. chaletsauquebec However, chaletsauquebec for many mammal-spotting naturalists, chaletsauquebec the park s most exciting resident is the critically endangered dwarf hog, which, after many years of absence has recently been returned to the wild thanks to a successful captive breeding project run by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (www.durrell.org). Park fees include the compulsory armed guard. Access is from Potasali, 2km off the Tezpur Bhalukpong road (turn east at one-house hamlet Gamani, chaletsauquebec 12km north of Balipara).

From Lumla, 42km towards Zemithang, helicopters chaletsauquebec ( 3000, two hours, hMon-Sat) fly to Guwahati. APST buses leave Tawang 5.30am chaletsauquebec Monday and Friday for Tezpur ( 290, 12 hours), calling chaletsauquebec at Dirang ( 130, six hours), Bomdila ( 170, seven hours) and Bhalukpong chaletsauquebec ( 240, 10 hours). chaletsauquebec More frequent chaletsauquebec public sumos to Tezpur ( 500) depart at dawn.

Mizoram s pretty, green hills get higher chaletsauquebec as you head east. Champhai chaletsauquebec is widely considered the most attractive district and is where you ll find the Murlen National Park, known for its hoolock gibbons. The small town of Saitual is a good stopover on the road to Champhai. Very close to Champhai is pretty Tamdil Lake, ringed by lush mountains. Further afield is the stunning Blue Mountain (Phawngpui), which at 2147m is the highest peak in Mizoram. It s considered by Mizos to be the abode of the Gods, but its slopes are said to be haunted by ghosts. Three Dimension can organise trekking trips here. For a more accessible taste of the Mizoram hinterland visit the Vantawng waterfalls, 95km from Aizawl.

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL chaletsauquebec S TRIBAL GROUPS chaletsauquebec The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, Hill Miri and various other Tibeto-Burman tribes chaletsauquebec consider themselves different from one another most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active throughout the Northeast and in the process have brought huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious chaletsauquebec beliefs and ways of life. Despite this, some aspects of the traditional chaletsauquebec lifestyle are just about holding on and many people continue to practise the traditional religion of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming themselves Christian. For ceremonial occasions, village chaletsauquebec chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. House designs vary somewhat. Traditional Adi villages are generally the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries stilted to deter rodents.