The Apatani tribal homeland — paddy-fish co-cultivation, facial tattoos with stories, the Ziro music festival in September.
Apong is brewed in Apatani households from rice and a starter culture, served cloudy and cool, and offered to anyone who arrives. Declining it turns out to be considerably harder than drinking it.
The valley is on UNESCO's tentative list for a wet-rice system that raises fish in the same flooded terraces as the crop, without machinery or draught animals. The music festival in September is the one busy week of the year.
Stay with us
A bamboo-and-pine Apatani longhouse, hosted by an elder.
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.
