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ARRIVAL GUWAHATI
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Day 1 -
Ghy - Shillong - Cherrapunjee (150 km)
We will ride through beautiful twisty roads of Meghalaya. We might face a little rain on the way to Cherrapunjee. Stay at Cherra Resort.
Day 2 - Cherrapunjee
Explore some of longest limestone caves in Asia and walk on the living root bridges.
Day 3 - Cherra - Shillong - Kaziranga (400km approx)
The longest riding day of the tour. 95 kms will be on mountain roads and the rest on good wide roads with a few bad patches due to road construction. We will stay at Raw Tourism Resort at Kaziranga National Park. You can stay in tents or in a bamboo machan. Set in a dry river bed, the resort is surrounded by mustard fields for miles. Do not except any star hotel treatment here. Since we will reach late, we won't be able to inside the park today. Enjoy the evening by the bonfire and under a million stars.
Day 4 - Kaziranga National Park
We will go in for elephant safari in the early morning and top it up with a jeep safari in the evening. Hope to see the endangered Rhino up close. Another bonfire night.
Day 5 - Kaziranga -Jorhat - Majuli Island (90 kms)
We cross over to Majuli today, the world's largest river island. We will take a 2.5-hour ferry ride across the Bhramaputra River to reach the island. We will stay at a lovely lodge entirely built on bamboo and on stilts. Explore the island a little in the evening. Enjoy traditional Assamese food.
Day 6 - Majuli
The white sand of the Brahmaputra and the Luit River offers great opportunity for some fun offroading. You can have half a day of offroading fun in the sand and have lunch by the side of the river. Have a swim or go boating in the river. Check out the traditional masks that a family in the island have been making since the last 100 years. They have kept a dying tradition alive.
Day 7 - Majuli - Jorhat - Sibsagar -Mon -(185 kms)
After a 2.5 -hours of boat ride, we will ride on straight roads through tea plantations and 45kms of narrow hills to reach Mon in Nagaland. Mon is the headquarters of the Konyak Naga. The most feared warriors in all of Nagaland. We will stay at Interior Adventure Resort.
Day 8 / 9- Mon
The Konyaks practiced headhunting in living memory. The warriors, who have 'collected heads' in' wars' with other tribes and the British, were decorated with tattoos on the bodies and faces. The more heads a warrior collected, the more intricate the tattoos grew and with them, his esteem in the society also grew. Since headhunting is a thing of the past, no more tattoos are done. All the tattooed warriors are quite old and in a few years' time, there will be none left. See their collection of human skulls -Trophies from battles.
The Konyaks are excellent craftsmen and make fantastic muzzle loading guns and pistols. You can fire these guns too. Check out their amazing handicrafts also. Explore villages that seem to be caught in a time warp and interact with real warriors and powerful village chief. We will stay in the village.
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Day 10- Mon - Jorhat- Mokokchung
A little longish ride. We come down from Mon, ride through the Tea Town of Jorhat in Assam and climb the hills again to reach Mokokchung in Nagaland. We stay in the Tourist Lodge for the night.
Day 11 -Mokokchung
We visit some interesting hilltop villages of the Ao tribe and see the tribal village life and try the local cuisine. An easy day after some long riding.
Day 12 - Mokokchung - Wokha - Kohima - Khonoma (180km)
We ride for about 155 kms to reach Kohima via the small town of Wokha. Kohima was a battle ground during the WWII and we will visit the War Cemetery and will ride to Khonoma Village after lunch. We will ride through 20 kms of rather bad roads through forest. Khonoma has been declared a Green Village and the village is famous for its fight against the invading British forces. We stay at a guest house.
Day 13 - Khonoma
Early morning we leave for a trek to Dzkhou Valley. A trek of medium intensity. It is a beautiful valley and you might want to camp in the valley itself. We can return to the village late afternoon and go for a tour of the village.
Day 14 - Khonoma - Kohima - Dimapur - Nameri
We leave Khonoma early morning and have lunch on the way. We will reach Nameri late afternoon and stay at the Nameri Eco Camp.
Day 15 - Nameri - Bomdila - Dirang (145 kms)
We enter Arunachal Pradesh and start riding on the hills again today. Narrow roads with amazing greenery all around. The ride is an adventure in itself.
Day 16 - Dirang - Sela Pass - Tawang (145 kms)
Again we ride on narrow roads and in all possibilities, we will come across a few landslides, which can be rather time consuming. We will cross Sela Pass, which at 14,500 ft, is one of the highest motorable roads in the country. Calls for cautious riding as there will be snow on the road. We will ride down to 10,000 ft to reach Tawang.
Day 17 - Tawang
Visit the 400-year-old Monastery where HH The Dalai Lama took shelter after he fled Tibet during the Chinese invasion. If the weather permits, we will also visit Yimithang - on the borders of China.
Day 18 - Tawang - Dirang (145 kms)
We come down the same way we had gone up.
Day 19 / 20 Dirang - Nameri - (145km)
Relax in the Nameri Eco Campafter a hard day's riding. Enjoy the sight and sound of the jungle. You can have a go at river rafting or try and catch some Masher.
Day 21 Nameri - Guwahati
Ride to Guwahati . End of Tour.
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