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Traversing tea estates and tiger reserves in Assam and West Bengal

The plains of Assam were waiting for us once we had made it down the mountains and out of Arunachal Pradesh. We knew that cycling in Assam would be more of an intense experience! With a population of 30.9 million people Assam is hugely more populated than most of the states we had been cycling in until [...]

Entering the North East India

By Twisting Spokes|2019-08-15T10:03:54+02:00 8th March, 2016|Categories: Assam, India, Manipur, Nagaland|Tags: Angami, Assam, christianity, elephant, jungle, Khonoma, Kohima, Manipur, Nagaland, northeast India, tribal, tribes|

Imphal, a city rated as a dangerous place to be due to local insurgents (rank 32 in the world at high risk of terror strike), this meant heavy military presence and several checkpoints in this part of North East India. The images of this stretch are here: End of Manipur, Nagaland to Kohima, Nagaland Kohima to Cheteba, Nagaland Cheteba to Zunheboto and Zunheboto [...]