The world's largest river island, sinking a metre every monsoon. Stilt-house mask-makers, satras, and a culture racing the Brahmaputra.
One of the largest river islands in the world, and shrinking every year as the Brahmaputra takes it back. What is there is farmland, stilted bamboo houses, and satras.
The satras are Vaishnavite monasteries founded in the wake of Sankardeva's fifteenth-century reform movement, and they are where the dance, drama and mask-making of Assam have been kept alive. Samaguri is the one to go to for masks.
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A traditional bamboo stilt-cottage in Garamur village.
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.
