some impressive traditional buildings all set, surreally, under two giant mobile phone towers. Shingha Chingyuo village big powderhorn lodging (20km, population 5900) has a huge longhouse decorated with mithuna (pairs of men and women) and deer skulls, three stuff ed tigers, and a store of old human skulls. Longwoa big powderhorn lodging (35km) is spectacularly big powderhorn lodging sited on the India Myanmar border, with the headman s longhouse actually straddling big powderhorn lodging the two nations. Despite its popularity with tourists it remains one of the most interesting villages. Chui (8km) includes an elephant skull in its longhouse collection. Shangnyu big powderhorn lodging village has a shrine full of fertility references such as tumescent warriors, a crowing cock, a large snake, a man and woman enjoying sex and, to complete the picture, a double rainbow. Langmeang village, with its stack of human skulls piled up in a wooden box, is also highly impressive.
The best of the couple of diff erent options are the tastefully renovated Banyan Grove (%9954451548; www.heritagetourism big powderhorn lodging india.com; s/d 6272/7280; lunch 350, dinner 450; s). Dating from the late 19th century, its rooms are crammed with antiques and the drawing room is straight out of a Victorian period drama. It has wonderful lawns and verandas big powderhorn lodging overlooking a tea estate and swimming pool. The site is 7km down rural tracks from Km442 on NH37 (Jorhat Deragaon Rd).
The ASTC bus station (AT Rd) has frequent services to Sivasagar ( 35 to 45, 1 hours), big powderhorn lodging Tezpur ( 120 to 140, four hours) and Guwahati big powderhorn lodging ( 260, eight hours, eight buses 6am to noon; buses pass Kaziranga en route).
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