ARUNACHAL TRIP 05 Nov to 11 Nov 2018
Arunachal Pradesh. Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains is the sobriquet for the state in Sanskrit ; It is also known as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists. Geographically, it is the largest of the Seven Sister States of Northeast.
We did a very short tour of Western Part of Arunachal from 5 Nov to 11 Nov 2018.
Note; Please remember that distance in mountains is NOT measured in km/miles but only in TIME. You may do 6 km in One Hour, that is very important.
Inner Line Permit. Every one requires a Inner Line Permit to enter Arunachal. It can be obtained On Line and costs Rs100.00 per person.
My Tour Visit points;
05 Nov.Took Air Asia evening Flt at 18.30 and landed at Guwahati Airport at 20.25. We then went to Air Force Base Guest Room and stayed the Night.
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| Guwahati Airport |
06 Nov. We reached Guwahati Airport at 09.00 after breakfast. We had requested for a helicopter ride from Guwahati to Tawang, through Arunachal Aviation. The phone number for booking the helicopter ride is given on web site, Mob No
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| Tawang From air |
. The ride depends on Weather Situation and VIP Movement. We were lucky to get the ride. It took 1 Hour and 10 Mins Flt.
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Arunachal Aviation Heptr
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We then went to see Tawang Monastry. Tawang Monastery was founded by the Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in 1681 in accordance with the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Guatso , and has an interesting legend surrounding its name, which means "Chosen by Horse". The sixth Dalai Lama,Tsanfyang Gyatso , was born in Tawang.
After visting the most popular landmark of Tawang, we went to our Guest Room.
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| Our Room in Tawang |
Evening at 16.00 we went to Tawang War Memorial. It has two parts. One is Museum giving the Battle of Tawang and Names of Soldiers who laid down their lives.
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Tawang War Memorial
The second part is a short Movie projected on Battle of Tawang and current Tawang. |
07 Nov. We started early at 08.15 after breakfast for Bumla. Enroute we saw the Tall Budha statue, PT Tsa Lake and reached Y Junction around 11.00 hours. We had a cup of tea and then started for Bumla.
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| PT TSA LAKE FROM ROAD |
The road after little distance was not paved and it was a rough ride. We reached Bumla ( Ht 4600 Mts;15200Ft)around 12.00. We saw the China border and stayed there for about 20 Mins and returned back.
There were number of Lakes we saw on our way back to Y Junction.
We also visited Teesri Udassi , Guru Nanak’s Gurudwara.
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| lake seen from Gurudwara |
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| Tesri Udassi Gurudwara |
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| Unknown Lake |
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| Another Lake on the Way |
Then we drove for another hour to Shonga-tser Lake also known as Madhuri Lake . The lake was formed due to earthquake in 1971 and has trees trunks in it. The lake is beautiful indeed but the journey is on a very rough stoned track. We had our lunch and returned back. We reached back our room around 6.30pm.
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| Madhuri Lake |
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| Clouds Come Fast |
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| Reaching The lake |
08 Nov. we started at 8.30 after breakfast. Our first halt was at Nuranang water Falls. We reached the falls at 10.30 am and went close to magnificent water falls.
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| Nuranang Falls |
We spent 30 mins and travelled to Jaswant Garh Memorial. We reached there at 12.00.
This memorial is In memory of RFN Jaswant Singh Rawat, MVC. He assisted by L/Nk Trilok Singh Negi and RFN Gopal Singh Gusain as part of Company 4th Battalion Garhwal Rifles on 17 Nov 1962, volunteered to silence an enemy MMG that had come close to their defences and was firing accurately at the locality. That very day 4th Garhwal Rifles had beaten back two of the enemy attacks on their location. Jaswant Rawat and Gopal Gusain supported by the covering fire from Trilok Negi heroically closed within grenade throwing distance and destroyed the Chinese detachment of five men seizing the MMG. However, in the process of returning Jaswant Rawat and Trilok Negi were killed whereas Gopal Gusain though seriously injured came back with the captured weapon. The entire operation cost the Chinese 300 dead and wounded with loss to Garhwal rifles being 2 dead and 8 wounded.
Daal Vada. After this short halt we started for our Guest Rooms which we reached by 15.30.
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| Our Rooms at Senge |
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| View From Senge |
09 Nov. After finishing my commitment , we started for Tenga Valley at 11.30. The first halt we had was War Memorial .
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| Nyukmadong War Memorial |
We paid our respects and moved to Sapper Camp river side halt.
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| View From Sapper |
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| Dirang Monastry |
We had quick lunch here and drove to Dirang Monastry. We spent 20 Mins at the Monastery.
We started for Bomdila and crossed the pass ( Ht 2415Mtr; 8000Ft ) around 16.00 hours.
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| On Way to Tenga |
We then reached our Guest rooms in Tenga Valley around 17.30 Hours.
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| Our Room at Tenga |
10 Nov.We started for a long drive to Guwahati after breakfast at 08.30.
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| Crossing Roopa |
After crossing Gyuto Monastry , we took one halt at Kalaktang for a cup of tea. At 11.00 hours.
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| Kaliktang |
The road was really good surrounded by hills with green cover. We reached Kaliagaon around 14.30 had had a lunch break. We reached our Rooms in Guwahati around 18.30
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| Sunset on way to Guwahati |
11Nov.We went to see UNESCO Heritage Site of Umananda Temple. It is a Shiva temple located at the Peacock Island in the middle of river Brahmaputra just opposite the office of the Deputy Commissioner or the Kachari Ghat in Guwahati. It was built by the Ahom King Gajadhar Singha (1681–1696), who was a devout Shaivaite.It is known as smallest inhabited riverine island in the world.
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| Crossing Mighty Brahmputra on Ferry |
Siva is said to have resided here in the form of Bhayananda. According to the Kalika Purana, in the beginning of the creation Siva sprinkled ashes (bhasma) at this place and imparted knowledge to Parvati (his consort). It is said that, when Siva was in meditation on this hillock, Kamadeva interrupted his yoga and was therefore burnt to ashes by the fire of Siva’s anger and hence the hillock got the name Bhasmacala.
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| Entrance to Temple |
This mountain is also called Bhasmakuta.
The Kalika Purana states that Urvasikunda is situated here and here resides the goddess Urvasi who brings Amrit (nectar) for the enjoyment of Kamakhya and hence the island got the name Urvasi Island.
You have to go in a ferry , which costs Rs20 per person for a return journey of 15 Mins.
After the visit we had Ethenic Lunch at a very nice ethenic restaurant, Gam's Delicacy with my friend on our way to air port.
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| Lunch with Col N Ms D K Chakraborty |
We reached airport by 14.10 hours and took Spice Jet flight at 15.50 to land in Delhi at 17.45 hours
The trip was fully organized by organization I served with great care and affection. This tour is also available through Travel Agents from Guwahati and Tawang.
A extremly great trip to extremely beautiful nature of Arunachal.
Few Pics of my organisation.
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| with Members |
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| Giving a Gift To Org |
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| With New Generation Members |
There were number of Lakes we saw on our way back to Y Junction. 
