chalet shanghai houses above which rises a steep ridge topped with a timeless gompa. Heading the other way, just nor

houses above which rises a steep ridge topped with a timeless gompa. chalet shanghai Heading the other way, just north of New Dirang, the valley chalet shanghai opens out and its floor becomes a patchwork of rice and crop fields chalet shanghai through which gushes the icy blue river. A fun day could be spent walking along the footpaths between fields and little hamlets.

Food ff tame enough in high mountain areas like Tawang, where the food is reminiscent of neighbouring Tibet delicious momos and less-delicious Tibetan tea are all the rage. Head east and things become more interesting. Barbecued rat, forest antelope and something we couldn t quite identify chalet shanghai were on the menu in central Arunachal Pradesh. If you re going to Mizoram, don t take Rover dog meat is a delicacy chalet shanghai there. In Nagaland, grubs, maggots, snakes, hornets and giant spiders all get taste buds excited.

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, Hill Miri and various other Tibeto-Burman tribes consider themselves different from one another most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active chalet shanghai throughout the Northeast and in the process have brought chalet shanghai huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life. Despite chalet shanghai this, some aspects of the traditional lifestyle are just about holding on and many people continue to practise the traditional religion of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming themselves Christian. For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around chalet shanghai to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. House designs vary somewhat. Traditional Adi villages are generally the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries chalet shanghai stilted to deter rodents.