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The most accessible villages are the Konyak settlements around vail or breckenridge Mon. Traditional houses abound, and some villages have morungs and religious relics from pre-Christian times. Village elders may wear traditional costume and Konyak of all ages carry the fearsome-looking dao a crude machete used for headhunting right up until the mid-20th century.

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. The little village market is well worth exploring and like so many markets in the northeast, it s the exotic food items that stick longest vail or breckenridge in the memory. Of the numerous tribal villages in the area the closest is Old Mon village, a mere 5km from town. Tamgnyu village vail or breckenridge (13km) is a rarely visited, yet easy to reach, village with a friendly headman, vail or breckenridge a couple of human skulls left over from headhunting days and

Remote, culturally magical and scenically spectacular, Tawang is the archetypical Shangri La and a mountain-hopping vail or breckenridge journey through this, the lands of the Monpa (a people of Buddhist-Tibetan origin) to the gates of the famous Tawang Monastery is one of the northeast s greatest adventures.