Tawang The Best Tourist Destination In India
January 24, 2009
Tawang is one of the best tourist destinations in India. It’s a small town enchanted with scenic beauty and it lies in the eastern Himalayas. Though the place is bone of content between India and china however, it is free from any militancy and local insurgencies. Tawang is famous for its very old monastery “Tawang Monastery” and it is four hundred years old. This monastery is one of the biggest and largest monasteries in Asia. Every year there is Buddhist festival held here and people from all over the country and other Asian Buddhist countries flock in to see and participate in the occasion.
Apart from the pilgrimage center the place is also surrounded by beautiful scenic beauty, land scape, snow coverage and passes. Tawang is located in the northwestern part of Arunachal Pradesh bordering west to Bhutan, north to china (Tibet) and south to Assam
One can see the rich local culture during the festival and their festival is called Losar which comes in the month of Feb. to march.
Tawang experiences short summer that is from April to June and very cold winter sets from November to February. December and January snowfall is sever.
Nearest station to reach Tawang is from Tezpur, transportation is available all 24 hours. One can hire a taxi and it takes 11 hours to reach Tawang. Where to stay would be the next immediate question in your mind. Yes, there are hotels and tourists lodge where you can find to stay comfortably.
Some of the best local places apart from the famous Tawang Monastery you can visit are Selah pass, local lakes and war house of “Jaswant Singh” who played heroic action against Chinese invasion during 1962 Indo-china war. It is still believe that his spirit is still alive and there are cooks and house keepers who are still cleaning and ironing his foods and cloths. You have to visit to believe this. Tawang is very beautiful “god’s own creation”.
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