Tawang Arunachal Pradesh Tour

Arrive Guwahati depending on your flight timing and transfer to Bhalukpong (5.3 hrs joueney), according to your flight timing or else stay in Guwahati.

Stay-Hotel / homestay

Meal plan- Self

After breakfast driving towards Dirang. Located in west kameng district. Dirang is an unexplored gem, hidden away in the wilderness of Arunachal Pradesh. A major influence Buddhism and Monpa culture can be found here. Driving hours approx.  4 hrs.

 After lunch visiting Thupsung Dhargyeling Monestary. Basically, this is a temple and learning institute for the study of Buddhism. The name, Thupsung Dhargye Ling was given by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama and means: “place of floursing of the Buddha’s speech”.

Evening is leisure time.

Stay- Homestay, Dirang

After breakfast proceeding toward Tawang. This district is situated in western most part of Arunachal Pradesh. Tawang is bounded by Tibet (china) to the north, Bhutan to the south -west and sela ranges separated from west kameng district in the east.

while driving enroute visiting Sela pass, it has an elevation of 4170m and en-route visiting Nuranang falls. This falls also known as Bong Bong falls, some 110meters high. It is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in this part of the country.

On arrival, check into Homestay/Hotels.

If time permit, we will be visiting urgelling monastery, the birthplace of the 6^th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Tashi. The monastery was built in 1487 AD by ugyen Zangpo, the youngest brother of terton pemalingpa, the great treasure revealer and His Holiness the 6^th Dalai Lama, was born in 1683 and resided in Urgelling Village.  Evidence of miraculous deeds and performances attributed to tsangyang Gyatso, H.H The sixth Dalai Lama, can be seen even today. Of exceptional interest is the tale of the plantation of walking sticks by tsangyang Gyatso. Legend has it that at the time of leaving for Tibet, tsangyang Gyatso planted his walking stick and prophesied that he would once again visit Tawang when all the three trunks that would grow of it would attain equal heights. Truly it happened but unfortunately, one of the trunks broke in 1959 due to strong wind, an ominous sign. Soon afterwards the people of Tawang saw H.H. the Dalai lama coming to Tawang once again, this time as the great Fourteenth, on his way to India in Exile.

Now present Lama head of urgelling monastery is sonam gyaltsen.

After excursion, Evening is leisure time.

 

 overnight stay at Tawang.

Meal-breakfast in Dirang

Special lunch local cuisine in tawang restaurant

After Breakfast visiting most beautiful the Madhuri Lake also known as Sangetsar Lake, at an attitude of 12,000 ft above from sea level. The lake was featured in a Madhuri dixit (Bollywood actress) dance sequence in the movie Koyla, as a result of which it has come to be called the Madhuri Lake. The lake has been surrounded by wonderfully lush valleys, and snow- capped mountains. A leisure walk is the best way to explore the picturesque surroundings of the lake.

On the way Sangester lake, there is Teesri udassi Guru Nanak Dev ji Gurdwara Sahib. Guru Nanak Dev ji was great missionary and traveler par excellence. He travelled major portion of south Asia with his message of salvation. Notwithstanding the hardship of terrain and whetherhe visited Tibet twice once via passes through Himachal Pradesh & western Utter Pradesh and then again through Nepal, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. His travels in four different directions are known as ‘Udasis’. Here we get Guru ka Langar in free service like water, tea, sweets & biscuits etc.

 Later we visiting The Bum La Pass in elevation of 4600m (15,200 feet). It is a border pass between China’s Cona county in Tibet and India’s Tawang district. It is also an agreed border personal meeting point for security forces of China and India.  The road to Bum La is also a historical route, the people’s liberation army of China invaded India during the 1962 Sino Indian war.

En-route visiting Tongpen La Café “the Highest café in the world in altitude”.

After lunch, visiting Tawang monastery also known as the Golden Namgyal Lhatse. At the height of 3014m above sea level and it has been recognised as the second largest monastery in the world. Within the complex there are 65 residential buildings. The library and museum of the monastery has valuable old scriptures, certain rituals decorated human skull, and ancient tools etc.

 

And later visiting Tawang war Memorial. it is in the name of those brave soldiers who made supreme sacrifice defending the frontiers of the Mother Land during 1962 Sino Indian conflict, dedicated to the nation.

And if time available we will be visiting Ngangpa natme (Buddha Park), the giant Buddha statue erected on the upper part of the Tawang town and its approx. 30 ft higher situated at elevation of 3100 m.  This statue was consecrated by H.E Thegtse Rinpoche in the year of 2015. And also, there is 104-feet tall National flag at an altitude of 10,000 feet, it is the second – highest monumental National flag in the country in terms of altitude.

 

Evening is leisure time.

Stay- homestay

Meal- breakfast

After Breakfast Transfer to Dirang. On arrival, Check into Homestay.

After lunch depending on time and snow, proceed toward Mandala top. Mandala top is a series of 108 Buddhist stupas (mane) that have been built in a circle on top of mountain. The mandala top is around 3400 meters high. Later visiting Mesopsa view point, 5km from mandala top and it is highly regarded for its amazing landscape and beautiful weather.

Stay- Homestay

Meal- breakfast

After breakfast, transfer to Shergaon (approx. 2.3 hrs). And check into Homestay/Hotel. It is offbeat, unique and very close to nature. It is region dominated by the Buddhist Sherdukpen people.

After lunch interested person can have small trek toward choskorong waterfall, which are worth visiting place.

Evening is leisure time.

Meal- breakfast

After breakfast transfer to Guwahati (approx. 6.5 hrs). evening leisure time in hotel.

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After early breakfast, check-out from hotel and take the departure transfer to Guwahati airport for your onward journey.

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