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Northeast States

Mizoram Northeast States India Travel

Seen from the sky, Mizoram seems to have been ploughed by a forgetful god who left the deep north-south furrows with a green fuzz of bamboo. Mizoram is tidy and almost entirely Christian. You’ll see very few Indian faces amongst the local Thai-Chinese style features. People are surreally but uninvasively friendly. Don’t be surprised if you’re warmly thanked by total strangers for bothering to visit their state.

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Kerala

Kottayam Kerala India Travel

Sandwiched between the Western Ghats and the backwaters, Kottayam is more renowned for being Kerala’s centre of the spice and rubber trade than for its aesthetic appeal. It’s a good place to make a connection between these two regions, or to pop into the pretty backwater village of Kumarakom.