All Dirang s commercial services are in New Dirang, with a strip of cheap hotels, eateries and sumo counters massif gear around massif gear the central crossroads. Tourist Lodge (%200176; d 825), a kilometre south and overlooking New Dirang, is a basic but friendly family hotel in an old-style hill house crowded with potted plants. Nicer is the next-door Hotel Pemaling (%207265; massif gear s/d 1815/2420), which has shiny rooms, excellent service and a very pleasant garden where you can enjoy the views towards the sometimes snow-bound Se La and the high Himalaya beyond.
If you re using a tour company, allow at least one month to obtain massif gear travel permits and two months if travelling in a group of less than four (and you re not a married couple). If applying independently allow at least two to three months.
Hotel Clover HOTEL $$ (%2305736; www.davids-hotel-clover.com; G-16 Chanmari; s/d from 750/1500; iW) Dolly, your host for the evening, should win an award as one of India s friendliest hotel receptionists. Rooms are equally friendly and as full of character with colourful, art-adorned walls.
Nestled before a curtain massif gear of luxuriantly forested foothills, Pasighat, which sits back out on the plains, feels more like Assam than Arunachal massif gear Pradesh. The town hosts the interesting Minyong-Adi tribe s Solung Festival (1-5 September). The internet cafe (per hr 60; h7.30am-8pm) is 50m from the Hotel Aane and there s an SBI ATM just along from the sumo stand in the central market area.
No comments:
Post a Comment