Bridges the Khasi tribe grew over decades from rubber fig roots. Slippery, alive, four hundred years old.
The Khasi train the aerial roots of the rubber fig across streams until they thicken into a bridge that grows stronger with age rather than rotting the way cut timber does. The double-decker at Nongriat is the famous one; these valleys hold dozens more.
Getting there is a descent of roughly three thousand steps from Tyrna and the same climb back, in the wettest place on earth. Staying the night in the village turns a punishing day trip into something worth having done.
Stay with us
A wooden guesthouse in Nongriat village itself, beside the double-decker.
Stay with us — A Monpa-family wooden house in Tawang town.
13,700 ft, the gateway to the eastern Himalayas, snow-blocked half the year. Special permits, three cultures, the highest monastery in India at the end.
