ChaloHoppo to Celebrate Chapchar Kut in Mizoram!

–  Carry a small bag(10 to 15 litres) for your trek that can fit essential toiletries and change of clothes for 1 night to reduce the weight on your shoulders and make the trek easier.

– Basic toiletries and allergy medications and tissue rolls (if you need)
– Head lamps/ Torches with batteries
– Quick dry towels
– Band aids

ID Proof : Voters card/ Pan Card/ Passport/ Drivers license/ Aadhar card (to be sent on mail upon confirming the trip to [email protected])

Other things that you may bring along :
Sun tan lotion
Playing cards and small board games,in case you don’t feel sleepy at nights.

We will have pick up and drop facility to and from Lengpui airport once you share the arrival time of your flight.

Please avoid carrying plastic bottles or even buying sealed bottles while at the venue as want to have a litter free zone as much as possible.

Though we will try our best to give you great service, please understand we won’t be able to give you hot towels, bed tea and the like.

Entry to the states of Mizoram does require a permit (ILP). You can get your Inner Line Permit at Lengpui airport.

A most definite yes, as long as you are okay travelling in a mixed group of other solo travellers or small group of friends.

• Winter jacket
• Headlamps/ Torches with batteries
• balaclava/ beanie (something that covers your ears and your head)
• Sports socks and Swimwear for the trek, you can also get swimming goggles or snorkelling masks, and swimming cap
• Raincoat (just in case, since you are travelling in ‘abode of clouds’)
• Trekking shoes (basic ones will do)
• quick dry towels (plastic bag/ ziplock to carry your wet clothes)
• Allergy medications and other medicines, since these are very remote places with very little access to most basic things.
• A non-disposable water bottle to fill water and AVOID BUYING MINERAL WATER
• ID Proof – Voters card/ Pan Card/ Passport/ Drivers license/ Aadhar cardYou can always buy these things from the Decathlon (1 km away from the airport) in Guwahati, if you wish.

Other things that you may bring along :
Tissue rolls
Playing cards and small board games, in case you don’t feel sleepy at night
Bottle openers
Go pro for underwater shots

The cultural diversity of northeast India is so vast that we can’t blame outsiders for not being aware of communities in the region who are purely vegetarians, so much so that they avoid eating onions( they are indigenous to the region, in case you are thinking about communities from mainland India who have settled here). Having said that, we must admit that the region’s food habits especially in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya are predominantly non vegetarian with a whole lot of red meat based preparations. But the states have warmed up to tourists recently and almost every place you visit will provide the Indian staple diet of rice, dal and sabji, even chapatis if you are lucky. As far as Tripura, Assam, Manipur and Sikkim are concerned vegetarians have decent number of options. Your craving for butter paneer may not be satisfied, but you will do just fine as far as maintaining your health and strength is concerned.

Please do carry some road trip snacks for the long journeys on the trip.

You have two options to reach Aizawl:

• Take a flight to Lengpui Airport. There is only one Air India flight from Kolkata everyday flying into Lengpui. It reaches Lengpui by 2:30 pm.
• Land in Guwahati and take an overnight train to Silchar. From Silchar take a shared sumo or hire a cab to reach Aizawl, it will take you around 9 hours on road.

On the day there are 3 flights flying from Lengpui to Kolkata. Out of these only one which takes off at 12:15 pm is the ideal one. The rest of them take a lot of time to reach Kolkata.

The only flights to Lengpui Airport are from Kolkata. All the flights form Mumbai, Delhi and other major cities are connecting flights via Kolkata.