India
North-East India.
Living-root bridges, monasteries and rhino country — India's wild green frontier.
Best months October–April
Meghalaya
Living root bridges
Bridges grown from rubber-fig roots, including the double-decker at Nongriat.
Assam
Kaziranga
Jeep safaris among the one-horned rhino.
Arunachal Pradesh
Tawang Monastery
A great monastery high in the eastern Himalaya.
Meghalaya
Dawki
The Umngot river, clear enough for boats to seem to float.
Meghalaya
Sohra (Cherrapunji)
Waterfalls and cloud-filled gorges in one of the wettest places on earth.
Arunachal Pradesh
Ziro Valley
Apatani rice fields ringed by pine hills.
Sikkim
Tsomgo Lake
A glacial lake on the high road from Gangtok.
Assam
Majuli
A river island of Vaishnavite monasteries on the Brahmaputra.
Designed for you
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We don't have a ready-made North-East India package on the site yet, and we won't invent one to fill the page. Tell us the month, who's travelling and what the trip is for — a specialist builds the itinerary by hand and comes back with a real price, not a “from” number with conditions attached.
Why people go
- Meghalaya's root bridges exist nowhere else on earth
- Kaziranga for one-horned rhino, at close range
- Still genuinely uncrowded
What we'll ask you first
- Permits are required for parts of the region — we start there
- How much walking you are up for; the best bits are earned
- Which state, or a combination — distances are larger than they look
Planning North-East India?
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