Aulling festival at nagaland and Mopin festival in Arunachal Pradesh

Date: This is fixed date of Aoulling and mopin every year from 30/3/2010 to 13/4/2010 to 2015


Day 1  30/3/2010 to 2015 / /Kolkatta – DIBRUGHAR/ -
Dibrugarh – Mon
Early morning start your drive to Mon for 5-6 houtd. After going through checking formalities at the border of Nagaland, we enter the state.
Visit first village at Phuktong village. It has two great Morungs (men’s dormitories). Also visit Angh’s (chief’s) residence.
Overnight at local house / tented camp

Day  2: 31/3/2010 to 2015 :
MON full days to explore this colorful tribal area of Konyak tribes who have been head hunters in the recent past.
Visit Shangnyu village which is ruled by the Chief Angh and is a prominent village in Mon district. There is a wonderful wooden monument measuring 8 feet in height and 12 feet in breadth- believed to have been constructed by heavenly angels. Human beings and other creatures are carved on this monument. Memorial stones are also found in front of the Angh’s Palace. History records that good and friendly relationship existed between the Shangnyu and the Ahom Kings of Assam. Shangnyu Angh use to collect taxes from all the villages under his domain-extending from Sibsagar in Assam to the Wanchos in Arunachal.
Also visit Sangha to see head hunting trophies and houses constructed in the true Konyak tradition with palm leaves roofing and the main pillars jutting out.
We will also organize a cultural evening in the village.

Day 3:  1/4/2010 to 3/4/2015 VISIT AULLING FETIVAL

Day 4:  3/4/2010 to 2015  MORNING VISIT AULLING FESTIVAL AND DRIVE TO DIBRUGHAR O/ N/ HOTEL

Day 5:  4/4/2010 to  2014  DIBRUGHAR TO PASIGHAT BY RESERVED FARRY
Morning drive to the ferry point and board our ferry for about 4-hours as we cross the mighty Brahmaputra . As there are no bridges close by on Brahmaputra , the ferry becomes the life line of trade between northern and southern banks of the river.   We will be joined by tribal, milkmen out to sell their milk to the big factories and migrant workers as we gently float on this mighty river.  On arrival, transfer to the hotel.

Day 6:  PASIGHAT TO ALOO
5/4/to 8/4/2010 TO 2015

VISIT MOPIN FESTIVAL:

VISIT to Lower and Upper Bari village.  On the way cross the river Yamgo.  From here  hike for one hour to Mobuk village which sits pretty on a saddle.  Also visit Monku village.  We will also organize cultural evening in the village here.

Day 10:  9/4/ 2010 to 2015  ALOO TO DAPORIJO 163KM
Enroute Lida village of Adi-Gallong tribes.  A short twelve-mile drive  brings us to Tajipara, another Adi-Gallong tribal village.  Adis are very accomplished weavers of cane goods.  They make baskets, hats, breastplates, shield, but the excellence of their cane work shines supreme in the famous cane suspension bridges of Arunachal Pradesh.  “Marvels of untutored engineering skills,” was how a 19th-century British explorer described the bridges.  The Adis also excel at weaving intricate patterns for their clothing, and we may see examples of their pottery today.

Day 11:  10/4/2010 to 2015 DAPORIJO TO ZIRO
Departing early in the morning, we descend from the DAPORIJO plateau and drive along the Kamla River valley through dense jungle country, passing picturesque villages of Nishis and the Hill Miris tribes.  We’ll visit Muri Mugli, a Hill Miris tribe, and if road conditions are good we will continue another eight miles on a mountain dirt road to Noori, a small traditional village of the same people.  The Ghansi sect of the Miris that we encounter here are of short stature, scantily dressed with a sleeveless jacket and loincloths.  They will usually carry woven cane knapsacks and a dao (broad sword) along with bow and arrows.  The Panibotias, another sect of the Miris that we will meet, are just the opposite: tall, well-built people.  Continue driving to on the banks of the Subansiri River .  Daporijo is the junction of three important tribes; Hill Miris, Tagins and Adi-Gallongs.

Day 12:  11/4/2010  to 2015 ZIRO
Using Ziro as a base, the entire day is spent visiting the Hong  and other Apatani Villages .  Everywhere we go we are warmly welcomed.  As E.T. Dalton noted in 1845, “The men do not rejoice in much drapery, they wear a girdle of canework painted red which hangs behind in long bushy tail.”  Just as the tail is the distinctive part of the male dress, so is the nose plug peculiar to the Apatani women.  It is the ambition of each woman to wear the largest possible nose plugs, which are made of wood.  Both sexes extensively tattoo their faces.  Each sect has distinctive features. Their hats, clothes, ornaments, language and even physical features are totally different.

Day 13:  12/4/2010 to 2015 ZIRO TO ITANAGAR 340KM
Early morning visiting of the Mompa Buddhist Monastery at Itanagar.  Drive to Guwahati Enroute visit Tea plantation

Day 14:  13/4/2010 to 2015 GUWAHATI to Airport
Early Breakfast visit Fafous kamakhaya temple : Umananda Temple and drive to airpotr fly to / Kolkatta/Delhi


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