hotel grand kopaonik Tripura s most iconic building, the 1930 Neermahal, is a long, red-and-white water palace (admission

Calling the Tawang Valley a valley just doesn t do justice to its incredible scale; it s more a mighty gash in the earth ringed by immense mountains. Patchworking the sloping hotel grand kopaonik ridges of the lower hills is a vast sweep of fields dotted with Buddhist monast eries and Monpa villages.

Tripura s most iconic building, the 1930 Neermahal, is a long, red-and-white water palace (admission/camera/video 10/10/25; h8.30am-4pm, until 4.30pm Apr-Sep), which is empty but shimmering on its own boggy island in the lake of Rudra Sagar. Like its counterpart in Rajasthan s Udaipur, this