Tea hills, living root bridges
and the world's wettest place
North East India is the country's most ethnically and ecologically diverse region — eight states wedged between Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, connected to the rest of India by a slender corridor and largely undiscovered by mainstream tourism.
From Darjeeling's UNESCO toy train and Tiger Hill sunrise to Sikkim's monasteries and the colour-shifting passes above Gangtok, from Meghalaya's living root bridges and the wettest place on earth to Kaziranga's one-horned rhinos and Arunachal Pradesh's remote Buddhist frontier — this is a region of extraordinary, layered difference.
This is a land where over 200 distinct tribal communities maintain their own languages, festivals, and cuisines, where tea was first planted by the British and is now harvested by hand on terraced hillsides, and where the monsoon doesn't interrupt travel so much as define an entire way of life.
