We started from Chennai on the 22nd of December, flying to Dibrugarh via Kolkata. We reached Dibrugarh at 2 p.m. and were anxious to get out of that place due to the ensuing protests against the CAA. We entered Arunachal at around 4 and reached the Golden Pagoda at Namsai at around 1730 in the evening.

Route Taken: Namsai (Namsai District) (Day 1) -> Hawai (Anjaw District) (Day 2) -> Dong (Day 3) -> Kibithu (Day 4) -> Tezu (Lohit District) (Day 5) -> Roing (Lower Dibang Valley District) (Day 6) -> Pasighat (East Siang District) (Day 6)-> Dibrugarh (Day 8) -> Chennai

Other more interesting boards on the road by the BRO include:

• If you drive like hell, soon you will be there
• Better be Mr Late than late Mr
• Safety on the road is safe tea at home
• After whiskey, driving risky
• Your hurry may cause your family worry
• This is not a race, drive with grace
• Keep your nerves on sharp curves; & many others

We went river rafting in Pasighat, and returned to Chennai on the 29th after one of our most memorable holidays, that included adventures like the car getting stuck on the ghat road in the night with rain pouring down and nowhere to go, with nobody on the road, to being forced to stop to wait for a landslide to get cleared !

Thank you for reading (viewing the pictures).

Note: This article was first published in my retired blog on 16 February 2020. This is a copy of it.

Arunachal is one of the most beautiful states in India, and surely more people need to go and appreciate it’s beauty when they can in this pandemic.