Conjure up an image of a shimmering blue lake broken up into small lakelets by floating islands of thick matted weeds. Add bamboo bridges, tribal people in dugout canoes chardon chalet and thatched hut-villages anchored on to the floating islands, and you have Loktak Lake, one of the few places a foreigner is allowed to visit outside of Imphal. More peculiar than floating villages are the large, perfectly circular fishing ponds created out of floating rings of weeds. The best view is atop Sendra Island, more a promontory than island. You can hire a boat (per person 100) in order to get a closer look at lake life.
CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal chardon chalet peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, chardon chalet Hill Miri and various other Tibeto-Burman tribes consider themselves different from one another chardon chalet most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active throughout the Northeast chardon chalet 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 of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming chardon chalet themselves Christian. For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker chardon chalet hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. chardon chalet 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 chardon chalet granaries stilted chardon chalet to deter rodents.
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