Sep 25 – 28
Ziro Festival of Music
Four days at Asia's most beautiful outdoor festival, in the Apatani tribal valley. Bamboo stages, rice beer, and a stay with the family hosting the festival's quietest after-party.
Four days of outdoor stages in a valley of flooded rice terraces, running since 2012 and still much closer to a large gathering than an industry event. Independent Indian bands, and an audience that came specifically for them.
The Apatani valley is on UNESCO's tentative list for a wet-rice system that raises fish in the same terraces as the crop, without machinery or draught animals. September is the end of the growing season, which is why the festival sits where it does.
The shape of it
Day 1
Into the valley
Arrive among the rice terraces and settle in with the host family.
Day 2
Bamboo stages
The first full day of the festival, and the apong that goes with it.
Day 3
More of the same, slower
By the third day the valley has set its own pace.
Day 4
The quiet after-party
The festival closes, and the gathering at the house you are staying in does not.
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