The next morning, Dean took us into town and helped us arrange a driver to take us to Kaziranga National park in Assam. Our driver was cool, stopping for daab just outside of town (basically as soon as it was available) and good-naturedly letting us fill up every extra available…
Mawlynnong won an award a few years ago for being the cleanest village in Asia. It is proud of that designation, and rightly so. The village is almost utopian-like in its cleanliness. When we were hiking, we went quite far out of the town before I saw even one potato-chip…
Today, I went to the living bridge in Ruwai, near Mawlynnong, in Meghalaya. This is perhaps one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my entire life. I do not exaggerate on this. Due to one of the highest annual rainfalls in the world, the floods each…
When we got up to head to Meghalaya, Bonnie had prepared breakfast and sent us off with a wave for our journey with Dean. We drove out of Shillong and headed into the hills on a road that is under a lot of construction. In some places, it’s still dirt…
After a couple of days in Kolkata, I got onto another overnight train, headed for Guwahati. Jayanthi and Alec had been out of town when I returned to Kolkata and both returned from their travels ill. They weren’t quite up to the difficulties of a full day on a train,…
