Ziro Valley - Apatani Country
A flat green bowl of paddy fields ringed by pine hills, farmed by the Apatani in a way agronomists still study.
- Duration
- 2 nights
- State
- Arunachal Pradesh
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- ₹11,000 /person
- per person · 2 nights · Apatani homestay, village walks, ILP and transport. Indicative - we quote on your dates.
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Ziro is the plateau the Apatani have farmed for centuries without a plough and, until recently, without a wheel. They grow rice and fish in the same flooded field - the paddy-cum-fish system - and they do it so efficiently that it sits on UNESCO's tentative list and gets written up in agricultural journals.
The valley itself is unlike anywhere else in Arunachal: flat, wide and geometrically green, with bamboo groves and pine ridges around the edge. You stay in an Apatani home, walk the villages of Hong and Hija, and eat rice, smoked meat and apong. The older women bear facial tattoos and nose plugs from a practice that ended in the 1970s - which makes this a window that is genuinely closing.
What's in it
- 01Apatani paddy-cum-fish fields - UNESCO tentative list
- 02Homestay in Hong or Hija village
- 03Bamboo groves, pine ridges and a flat green valley floor
- 04Ziro Festival of Music each September, if you want the crowd
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