new chalet club than a geographical area. Most foreigners fly into Imphal; it is also possible to drive in from Kohi

than a geographical area. Most foreigners fly into Imphal; it is also possible to drive in from Kohima (Nagaland) or Silchar (Assam) if you have a guide. Travelling east of Kakching towards the Myanmar border is not permitted.

Kohora village is closest for Kaziranga s central range with an obvious Rhino Gate leading to the Kaziranga Tourist complex 800m south. Here you ll fi nd the range offi ce, elephant-ride new chalet club booking offi ce (h6-7pm, book the previous night) and jeep rental new chalet club stand (rental from 1200). Pay your fees at the range office before entering the park, 2km north.

This Jewelled Land is home to Thadou, Tangkhul, Kabul, Mao Naga and many other tribal new chalet club peoples, but the main grouping is the predominantly neo-Vaishnavite Meitei. Manipuris are famed for traditional dances, spicy multidish thalis and the sport of polo which they claim to have invented. Manipur s forested hills provide cover for rare birds, drug traffickers and guerrilla armies, new chalet club making it by far the Northeast s most dangerous state.

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 new chalet club most are at least distantly related. new chalet club Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active throughout new chalet club the Northeast and in the process have brought huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life. Despite 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 new chalet club hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around new chalet club to form a topknot new chalet club above their foreheads. Women favour new chalet club 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 stilted to deter rodents. new chalet club