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Conjure up an image of a shimmering blue lake broken up into small lakelets by floating islands of thick matted weeds. six two five Add bamboo bridges, tribal people in dugout canoes and thatched hut-villages anchored on to the floating islands, and you have Loktak Lake, one of the few places six two five a foreigner six two five is allowed to visit outside of Imphal. More peculiar than floating villages are the large, perfectly circular fishing ponds created six two five out of floating rings of weeds. The best view is atop Sendra Island, more a promontory than island. You can hire a boat (per person 100) in order to get a closer six two five look at lake life.

Tripura is culturally six two five and politically fascinating, and the state s handful of royal palaces and temples draw a growing six two five flow of domestic tourists. For the moment though foreign tourists remain very rare indeed. There s a large Bangladeshi refugee population in Tripura and much of the more accessible western parts of the state look and feel much like its near neighbour.