Introduction
(vero;2023-June-23)
After our forced grounding during the Covid years we chose India to resume our long distance travels. A well-known destination for us, but this time we decided to explore a completely new region which, believe us, is very different to the "mainland": the north eastern states a.k.a the Seven Sisters: Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. We managed to tour six of the seven states: distances are great in this part of the country and transport very time consuming and tiring, so we skipped the state of Mizoram; it was too remote and we simply didn't have enough time.
We landed in Kolkata and took a night train the next day to Guwahati in Assam, the gateway to the region. After a few days to acclimatise and organise our Arunachal Pradesh permits, we started our tour with Meghalaya and finished in Guwahati for an other night train back to Kolkata where we stayed for four days before flying back home.
This trip was completely different to what we had experienced earlier in India. Meeting the locals and nature were the absolute highlights.
- You can retrace our route on this map showing our itinerary.
- See the Blog section for some stories and trip details
- We have many pictures to share in the Photos section.
Finally, we have a full site map of all SevenUp 2023 pages; the other sections have local maps (see Blog Map and Photos Map and index pages (see Blog Index and Photos Index).
$updated from: Blog.htxt Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:04:39 trvl2 (By Vero and Thomas Lauer)$