Travel guide

Planning Guides for Upper Assam & Eastern Arunachal

The questions travellers ask us before booking, answered properly: permits, seasons, vehicle choice and how long these roads really take.

What the Inner Line Permit is, who needs it, and how it works on these routes.

How we choose between Crysta, Scorpio, Bolero and Dzire for real routes.

Two remote valleys, very different trips — how to choose if you can only do one.

The mountain sector that decides whether your Mechuka trip goes well.

Which onward legs work on arrival day, and which do not.

Oil, coal, tea and the Stilwell Road in three or four days from Dibrugarh.