State Museum MUSEUM (admission 5; h9.30am-3.30pm Tue-Sun) The superbly presented State Museum, 3km north, includes plenty of tableaux with mannequins- chalet at pd in-action depicting diff erent traditional Naga lifestyles plus everyday tools.
From a distance Aizawl (pronounced eyezole) seems a painted backdrop to an Italian opera, such is the steepness of the ridge on which it s perched. Backs of homes at road level might be held there with stilts three times higher than their roofs.
Eastern and central Meghalaya are mainly populated by the closely related Jaintia, Pnar and Khasi peoples, originally migrants from Southeast Asia. Western Meghalaya is home to the unrelated Garo tribe. Despite their different ethnic backgrounds, these two groups use a matrilineal system of inheritance with children taking chalet at pd the mother s family name. A good time to be in Meghalaya is when the four day, state-wide, chalet at pd Wangala festival takes place. This Garo harvest festival is renowned for its impressive traditional dancing.
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