Saturday, April 14, 2012

Few more glimpses of Arunachal Pradesh ...

Can't get over with Arunachal ever !!!  So many images, I can go on and one. For now, yet another post on Arunachal glimpses.

Anjaw district with just one person per sq km population density is the least populated district in the entire country. Often, people live in solitary houses far away from the main village and in most of the times, on mountain tops accessible only by feet.

One such solitary house

Continuous lush green mountains will suddenly look torn out at places ... that is none other than jhoom kheti (jhoom cultivation). Debates continue if this pattern is good or not, but this has been the way of life in Arunachal for quite some time now.

  
Lush green mountains wear a torn look
Before the Border Roads Organisation built the pucca bridge at Moshai across Lohit river, the only way people from Moshai and Kaho, the last village on the Indian border in Anjaw district, could commute was using this hanging bridge at Kibithoo.

The hanging bridge at Kibithoo on the Lohit

And now, the ultimate ... the mighty Lohit in the upper reaches of the Anjaw district ...


And there is more to Lohit and Anjaw than this. May be sometime later again. Enjoy !!!