Nearly perfect
Getting to the living root bridge before anybody else was on the path. Not perfect — messages before the trip took a day or two to get answered — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
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Getting to the living root bridge before anybody else was on the path. Not perfect — messages before the trip took a day or two to get answered — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
Swimming at Rainbow Falls before the day crowd arrived. 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.
An elephant grass drive at last light that felt like the whole reason to come. Against that, there were two more people in the group than we'd been told to expect, and for what we paid I'd expect the whole trip to be at the level of its best day.
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.
Riding out of Ziro with a support van that turned up exactly where it said it would. Against that, the Guwahati leg took five hours in traffic and ate most of a day, and for what we paid I'd expect the whole trip to be at the level of its best day.
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 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.
How little of it was scheduled — we were asked each morning what we felt like. The whole thing was organised without ever feeling packaged, and we were never once left wondering what happened next.
The mechanic who rebuilt a derailleur by torchlight and had us moving by seven. Against that, the Guwahati leg took five hours in traffic and ate most of a day, and for what we paid I'd expect the whole trip to be at the level of its best day.
A village lunch that wasn't on any itinerary and was the thing we still talk about. Not perfect — there were two more people in the group than we'd been told to expect — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
An elephant grass drive at last light that felt like the whole reason to come. Not perfect — we did three safaris and saw very little on two of them — but it didn't take much away from the rest.
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