9/29/2010

Reached the White mountains- Arunachal Pradesh



It were the spring holidays, it was early march or mid, with wage remembrance i continue. During the holidays then, that my father prepared us for another trip to the new state Arunachal Pradesh, to visit a famous tourist spot Tawang, which is also known as the "Switzerland of India". We had a long journey to go, we hit the roads and two families took the car and headed towards the destination. We, drove till "Tezpur", and halted one day in an hotel. And from there our journey began, we hired a tata sumo, which drove us back and forth till tawang and back to tezpur. We started from tezpur up the hill down the hill cold, blue green mountains, terrace farming on the mountain, roads so curvy, adventures and eyes admiring the scenic beauty around. We reached, Peling a place which comes on the way to Tawang, in between Tezpur and Tawang, we reached in the late evening so halted there for the night, the hotel was surrounded by hills, and we lived in the valley. The dinner was warm and healthy, and after the tiring day we all wanted to sleep cozy in our rooms.
Morning, after the breakfast we got ready and back to the journey. In between, we Reached Sella Pass, it was snowing heavily and it was all covered with snow, we put as many warm clothes to keep our self cozy. We took many photographs as snowing became mild, it was a great fun experience as it was our first time we made snow man with the snow and made snow balls and threw on each other for fun. Then as we crossed the Sella pass and kept going higher, the snow started disappearing.
Then finally we reached, the town Tawang, it was evening and it was cold, we got a beautiful hotel, with beautiful rooms and the hotel arranged with orchids and mountain flower plants, they looked unreal and amazing. Next day we had to leave early morning there was no breakfast ready, so uncle who came along with us made maggi for all of us and we had warm maggi for breakfast and left to see the snow white mountains.
We drove high up hill, after few hours we reached the snow land. The first visit was the Madhuri lake, Named after the actress, as the Movie "Koyla" was shot there and Madhuri dixit acted in it and came for shoot there, since then its known as Madhuri lake. The lake was frozen, that one could walk on it, but if it cracked one would become frozen as ice when they fall into it. There were snow all around there was no inch of land left, everything was covered by snow, even the car was jammed in the snow filled road and couldn't go further. The military houses were also covered all with snow, the experience was pure, pure and white. The cold, the Chilled climate was awesome to enjoy, we played a lot in the snow, clicked loads of memories within too.
After the visit, to the snow filled land it was a ride to the oldest and most beautiful monastery named "ZIRO". Ziro, is famous for its cultural festival and it is the main attraction of tawang. The time we went was not the festive time, so we didn't get to see any cultural fest, but the monastery was worth visiting, beautiful paintings, sculptures, the lord Buddha and the pure positive vibes coming out from the place and its ambience's were worth capturing.
After all the visits the day ends, at the end of the day we did some few shopping from the market and my dad got an traditional instrument to keep it or treasure it as a token of remembrance from the place.Next day we had to leave back for tezpur, on the way this time we halted at Bomdila which was close to tawang, before that we visited the sela lake. Then after the halt next day again we hit the roads and we reached tezpur. After a long journey as we reached tezpur we stayed in the same hotel where we left our cars, that day night after dinner we kids were all in one room watching tv, and parents were walking and talking, and suddenly we shook the bed shifted the windows made noise and we got scared, and we came down and we came to know it was a earthquake, it was a vigorous earthquake, it shook everything but didn't damage much things. Earthquakes are very common in the north easts, so most of them didn't panic and knew what was it, and that was a comparatively mild one. And next day we drove and reached home.
Assam and northeast was a nice adventures and fun experience and would love to rejoice them with my own family once again.

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