Sumos leave New Market at 6am for Itanagar ( 450, 12 hours) and Ziro ( 300, six hours). The bus station has a lackadaisical 7am service to Along ( 150, six hours) on alternate days depending on when the bus returns from Along.
Guwahati is considered kopaonik map the site of Pragjyotishpura, a semi-mythical kopaonik map town founded by Asura King Naraka who was later killed by Lord Krishna for a pair of magical earrings. The city was a vibrant cultural centre well before the Ahoms arrived, and later it was the theatre of intense Ahom Mughal
China has never formally recognised Indian sovereignty here and it took the surprise Chinese invasion of 1962 for Delhi to really start funding significant infrastructure. The Chinese voluntarily withdrew. These days border passes are heavily guarded by the Indian kopaonik map military kopaonik map and the atmosphere is extremely calm.
The most accessible villages are the Konyak settlements around kopaonik map Mon. Traditional houses abound, and some villages have morungs and religious relics from pre-Christian times. Village elders may wear traditional costume and Konyak kopaonik map of all ages carry the fearsome-looking dao a crude machete used for headhunting right up until the mid-20th century.
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