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The riverside camp, where the crew cooked over a fire and nobody touched their phone. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
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The riverside camp, where the crew cooked over a fire and nobody touched their phone. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
The drive out to Dawki, where we were on the water by eight and had it almost to ourselves. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
Two nights in a Nongriat homestay where the food was better than anything we ate in Shillong. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
Getting to the living root bridge before anybody else was on the path. Against that, messages before the trip took a day or two to get answered, and for what we paid I'd expect the whole trip to be at the level of its best day.
An elephant grass drive at last light that felt like the whole reason to come. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
The walk down to the double-decker root bridge, which our captain paced so we stopped where we wanted rather than where the schedule said. Not perfect — the Guwahati leg took five hours in traffic and ate most of a day — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
Riding out of Ziro with a support van that turned up exactly where it said it would. Not perfect — a permit check held us up for half a day and nobody had warned us it was likely — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
Getting to the living root bridge before anybody else was on the path. Not perfect — the hotel on the first night was a clear step below the rest of the trip — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
The mechanic who rebuilt a derailleur by torchlight and had us moving by seven. Against that, the hotel on the first night was a clear step below the rest of the trip, and for what we paid I'd expect the whole trip to be at the level of its best day.
Swapping the raft for bicycles on day six, which broke up the trip perfectly. Not perfect — the hotel on the first night was a clear step below the rest of the trip — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
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