gondola chalet If you re using a tour company, allow at least one month to obtain travel permits and two months if

The best of the couple of diff erent options gondola chalet are the tastefully renovated Banyan Grove (%9954451548; www.heritagetourism gondola chalet india.com; s/d 6272/7280; lunch 350, dinner 450; s). Dating from the late 19th century, its rooms are crammed with antiques and the drawing room is straight out of a Victorian period drama. It has wonderful lawns and verandas overlooking a tea estate and swimming pool. The site is 7km down rural tracks from Km442 on NH37 (Jorhat Deragaon Rd).

If you re using a tour company, allow at least one month to obtain travel permits and two months if travelling in a group of less than four (and you re not a married couple). If applying gondola chalet independently gondola chalet allow at least two to three months.

some impressive traditional buildings all set, surreally, under two giant mobile phone towers. Shingha Chingyuo gondola chalet village (20km, population 5900) has a huge longhouse decorated with mithuna (pairs of men and women) and deer skulls, gondola chalet three stuff ed tigers, and a store of old human skulls. Longwoa gondola chalet (35km) is spectacularly sited on the India Myanmar border, with the headman s longhouse actually straddling the two nations. Despite its popularity with tourists it remains one of the most interesting villages. Chui (8km) includes an elephant skull in its longhouse collection. Shangnyu village has a shrine full of fertility references such as tumescent warriors, a crowing cock, a large snake, a man and woman enjoying sex and, to complete the picture, a double rainbow. Langmeang village, with its stack of human skulls piled up in a wooden box, is also highly impressive.