Ziro Music Festival & Pine Groves
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Ziro & Apatani Myoko Festival
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh
The Apatani friendship-and-fertility festival of March — priests' chants, pig sacrifices, village feasts and the deep animist tradition of the Ziro valley.
Ziro Valley
Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh
A gentle plateau of rice terraces and pine knolls, home of the Apatani people famed for sustainable wet-rice-plus-fish farming and their tattooed elder generation — plus September's Ziro Festival, India's loveliest outdoor indie-music weekend. UNESCO-tentative cultural landscape.
Apatani Villages of Ziro (Hong, Hari, Hija)
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh
The bamboo-and-pine hamlets of the Apatani people — famed for facial tattoos and nose-plugs of the elders, wet-rice-and-fish paddies and sustainable living.
Meghna Cave Temple & Kile Pakho Ridge, Ziro
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh
A 5,000-year-old Shiva cave-shrine near Ziro and the Kile Pakho ridge, whose viewpoint frames the whole Apatani valley in a bowl of hills.
Hapoli & Old Ziro Town
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh
The twin settlement of Hapoli (new town) and Old Ziro — markets, the district headquarters, the pine-hill approach and the base for exploring the Apatani valley.
Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh
A high plateau of silver-fir and bamboo forest above Ziro — clouded leopard and Apatani-pine country, reached by a two-day trek through primeval woods.