chalet magog Of four Hindu temples around the palace compound, the most fanciful is Jagannath Mandir (h4am-2pm &

Like a practice run for Sivasagar, Gaurisagar has an attractive tank and a trio of distinctive 1720s temples Vishnudol, Shivadol chalet magog and Devidol built by dancing girl queen Phuleswari. The more impressive is Vishnudol, not as tall as Sivasagar s Shivadol but sporting finer, but eroded chalet magog carvings. Gaurisagar is on the main NH37 at Km501.5.

Air India (%2264420, Ganeshguri), IndiGo Airlines, Jet Airways chalet magog (%2633252; Tayebullah Rd), Kingfisher and SpiceJet fly to Guwahati from most major Indian cities (often with a stopover in Kolkata). Getting into town from Guwahati chalet magog s orderly Lok-Priya Gopinath chalet magog Bordoloi International Airport costs 500/100/70 for taxi/shared taxi/airport bus.

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although chalet magog the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, Hill Miri and various other Tibeto-Burman tribes chalet magog consider themselves different from one another most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries chalet magog have been highly active throughout chalet magog the Northeast and in the process have brought huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life. Despite this, some aspects of the traditional lifestyle are just about holding on and many people continue to practise the traditional religion chalet magog of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming themselves Christian. For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. House designs vary somewhat. Traditional Adi villages are generally the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries stilted to deter rodents.

Of four Hindu temples around the palace compound, the most fanciful is Jagannath Mandir chalet magog (h4am-2pm & 4-9pm). Its massive sculptured portico leads into a complex with wedding-cake architecture painted in ice-cream sundae colours. Several royal mausoleums are decaying quietly chalet magog on the riverbank behind Batala market. To get to them walk west down HGB Rd, turn left at Ronaldsay Rd and right along the riverbank. Chaturdasha Devata Mandir (Temple of Fourteen Deities) hosts a big seven-day Kharchi Puja festival chalet magog in July in Old Agar- tala, 7km east down Assam Agartala (AA) Rd (NH44) at Kayerpur.