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 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.
The beautifully forested hills around Itanagar hide the attractive Ganga Lake (5km), a local picnic spot. Further china chalet broadway away (20km) is Poma village, which is about the closest place to town to see the traditional architecture china chalet broadway of bamboo longhouses (although many of these are being slowly replaced with concrete box houses). china chalet broadway
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