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| Double Rainbow in Ziro |
Ziro is the head-quarter of Lower subansiri district in Arunachal Pradesh located in north eastern part of India. It is located at an altitude of 5754 ft. Its unique scent and temperature are subjects of thought for many passing through. The weather is cool in summers and chilling cold in winters sometimes below zero degrees.
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| paddy cum fish culture |
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| Heavenly View from Sidheswar Nath Temple |
Ziro is also famous for rare orchids and other flowers like Rhododendron arboreum , Hedychium ellipticum , Hedychium densiflorum, etc. The climate of the area is congenial for cultivation of orchids and varieties of flowers.
People of Ziro:
Ziro is a fascinating place where people of many different communities and religions live together in unity, the denizens, the business people and the people serving Arunachal government from other states and other places of Arunachal Pradesh. A supportive and healthy environment among people is a live example of unity in diversity.Denizens of Ziro: Apatani Tribal is the denizen of Ziro and belongs to Mongoloids ethnic group.
Languages:
Apatani-the local language spoken by denizens.
Hindi and Assamese: Almost everyone can communicate in Hindi & Assamese.
English -known to majority of people.
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| Tallest Natural Shiva Lingam |
Reaching Ziro:
Ziro is nearly150 kms away from itanagar(Capital of Arunachal Pradesh) and nearly 600 kms from Guwahati,Assam.Road Transport (Recommended):Regular bus services from Guwahati to North Lakhimpur and Itanagar are available.Direct buses from Itanagar and buses as well as Tata sumos from North Lakhimpur are available.
It takes nearly 8.5 hours to reach North Lakhimpur from Guwahati and from North Lakhimpur takes 6-7 hrs to reach Ziro.
Sidheswarnath Temple in Kardo Forest:
The tallest natural Shiva Lingam, 25ft. in height and 22 ft in width was discovered in 2004 and is famous as Sidheswarnath Temple.
This blogs is highly informative regarding Ziro thanks for sharing, The pictures taken by you is fantastic. Hope to get more inputs from you in near future.
ReplyDeleteGood pics and thanks for sharing the information.
ReplyDeleteNice blog Kanak. I plan to visit Arunachal Pradesh after few years. Right now it is tough. I have always heard Arunachal Pradesh as a place often targeted or as a place China desperately wants. My father adviced me to travel anywhere, but when it comes to North-East he advices me to think twice and he is a bit afraid. He use to say "travel after few years". But this blog portrays Arunachal in a great manner. I enjoyed reading it. I want to see how a sunrise at 4:30AM in the morning would look. I like this line. "pending time with Pine and Bamboo groves, roaming in the alleys of calm and quite villages ,watching people spending the whole day working in either the paddy fields or the small markets and taking teeny weeny breaks to have the home made wine called Aapong"... nice description.
ReplyDelete"The perfect place to clear one’s mind of unnecessary thoughts and re-center oneself." -I agree on this point too... I use to travel within the Indian mainland for this .. :-) ... you know nice amount of biology as well. great that you have described the flowers with their scientific names instead of vernacular names..learnt few words like denizens. just googled for the meaning :-) .. nice description of tribals with lot of information about them. They need recognition actually. Possible only through blogs like this. Great work Kanak.. share it with other colleagues as well..nice pics as well.
ReplyDeleteHey it was nostalgic reading ...i have spend one n half months in Arunachal(Pakke tiger reserve)....and a road trip to Tawang....tis place is so beautiful and changing landscape as u travel....one sud definitely visit arunchal....worth paying multiple visits one is not enough....
ReplyDeleteHi Krishna, as per ur comment "U have always heard Arunachal Pradesh as a place often targeted or as a place China desperately wants.".The answer for former part is Arunachal is not targeted for anything.Its is as peaceful as other places.I am a born Arunachali and grew up as an Indian as other Indians do and I never saw any disturbances over there in years.You wont get to know the environment of a place until n unless u land there.I hope u wud be there someday to change ur mindset.The later part is very correct,China desperately wants it because Arunachal is very rich in natural resources.But claiming is a different thing,our government is not that weak that China will separate our brothers and sisters from us because a family is a family and no one has the right to claim a member of that family.I hope my explanation helps.
ReplyDeletenice & sensible piece of work from a person known for her disastrous PJs... mujhe laga isne likha hoga to kaisa likha hoga... bt after going thru I cn say that even traveloguers Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Batutta will appriciete this piece f work... pics makes it more tempting though I guess it lacks some explicit pics of bamboo grooves, pics f winter when temperature is < 0 degrees, apple trees and some f the rare vegitations... sunrise@4:30 am... itne baje to mai sone jata hoon...
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