Offbeat & Adventure
Where the packages don't go.
Root-bridge treks down into Nongriat, the David Scott Trail across Khasi country, and Arunachal valleys most operators can't route to. This is the part we're best at.
20 across the North East
20 experiences in offbeat & adventure
01 - 1-2 nights - Assam
Majuli - The River Island
Vaishnavite satras, mask-makers and pottery villages on the Brahmaputra's great river island.
02 - Full day - Assam
Rafting at Nameri
A gentle raft down the Jia Bhoroli through Nameri's forest - and the best birding in Assam.
03 - Full day, or one night - Assam
Chandubi - The Lake the Earthquake Made
An hour and a half from Guwahati, a lake formed by the 1897 earthquake - Rabha fishing villages, dugout canoes and almost no visitors.
04 - 1-2 days - Meghalaya
Living Root Bridges - Nongriat
The double-decker root bridge at Nongriat - grown, not built, and now on its way to UNESCO.
05 - Full day - Meghalaya
The David Scott Trail
16 km of old colonial bridle path across Khasi hill country - the region's best day walk.
06 - Half day - Meghalaya
Mawsynram - The Wettest Place on Earth
The village that out-rains Cherrapunji, and the cave with a stalagmite shaped like a Shiva linga.
07 - 1-2 days - Meghalaya
Sohra - Waterfall Country
Nohkalikai, Seven Sisters, Wei Sawdong and the limestone caves - the Scotland of the East.
08 - Half day from Shillong - Meghalaya
Laitlum - Where the Hills End
An hour from Shillong the grassland simply stops and drops into a gorge - and a stone staircase goes down it to a village with no road.
09 - Full day - Meghalaya
Phe Phe Falls Trek
A short, steep walk in the Jaintia Hills to a fall that drops into a pool the colour of bottle glass.
10 - Full day - Meghalaya
The Caves of Meghalaya
Limestone and sandstone caverns under the plateau - including the longest sandstone cave on earth, and the one that named a geological age.
11 - Full day - Meghalaya
The Bamboo Trail at Wahkhen
A walkway of lashed bamboo pinned to a cliff face, built and maintained by one village. Not for the uneasy.
12 - 3-4 nights - Arunachal Pradesh
Tawang - Monastery at 10,000 Feet
India's largest monastery, the Bumla pass on the Chinese border, and Monpa villages in between.
13 - Arranged before you travel - Arunachal Pradesh
Inner Line Permits - Handled
The single biggest reason people abandon an Arunachal trip. We do this every week.
14 - 2-3 nights - Arunachal Pradesh
Shergaon & Sangti Valleys
Orchard valleys and farmstays on the road to Tawang, where the visitor count is still in single figures.
15 - 2 nights - Arunachal Pradesh
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.
16 - 3 nights - Arunachal Pradesh
Mechuka - The Valley Almost Nobody Reaches
A wide river valley near the Tibet border with a 400-year-old monastery on a hill and a visitor count you could count.
17 - 3 nights - Arunachal Pradesh
Namdapha - Four Big Cats, One Forest
The only park on earth with tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and snow leopard - and almost no visitors at all.
18 - Full day from Tawang - Arunachal Pradesh
Bumla Pass & Madhuri Lake
The Indo-China border at over 15,000 feet, and a lake that exists because an earthquake dammed a river.
19 - 2 days - Arunachal Pradesh
Rafting the Siang at Pasighat
The Brahmaputra before it is the Brahmaputra - big volume white water coming out of the Himalaya.
20 - 2 days - Meghalaya
Wari Chora - The Canyon in the Garo Hills
A gorge of vertical rock and impossibly clear green water in the far west of Meghalaya, reached by boat.
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