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The impoverished hill town of Mon is in a gorgeous setting but feels like a frontier town. There s an SBI ATM in the town centre but don t rely on it working. wildernest co The little village market is well worth exploring and like so many markets wildernest co in the northeast, it s the exotic food items that stick longest in the memory. Of the numerous wildernest co tribal villages in the area the closest is Old Mon village, a mere 5km from town. Tamgnyu wildernest co village (13km) is a rarely visited, yet easy to reach, village with a friendly headman, a couple of human skulls left over from headhunting days and

With an oversized foyer better suited as a car showroom, Hotel Arun Subansiri (%2212806; Zero Point; s/d 1100/1320; a) has comfortably large rooms with soft beds. It s within walking distance of the decent State Museum wildernest co (Indian/foreigner/camera/video 10/75/20/100; h9.30am-4pm Sun-Thu) and the brightly decorated Centre wildernest co for Buddhist Culture gompa set in gardens on the hill above.

Other enchanting gompas and anigompas (nunneries) offer great day hikes from Tawang, including ancient if modest Urgelling Gompa where the sixth Dalai Lama was born. By road, it s 6km from Tawang wildernest co town but closer on foot downhill from Tawang Gompa. At the time of research construction wildernest co was almost complete on a chasm-spanning cable car that will link the monastery with an anigompa on the opposite side of the valley. wildernest co There was no information available on whether it would be open to tourists.

Brand new and the only possible competition for the Ginger, which is right opposite, half of this government-run guesthouse is reserved for visiting Ministers, the other half is for nobodies like us. The large, perfect rooms are filled with sunlight and for the moment wildernest co it s all very impressive, but as we said it s government-run so there s every chance it ll be allowed to rot away without wildernest co anyone really caring!