The best time to visit the Arunachal Pradesh is late autumn or early winter. Rest of the time it may rain or weather may be foggy, denying one pleasures of mountain views. Being a cloth merchant in Mumbai for thirty years this was peak of business time, coinciding with Diwali and the Hindu New Year. Thus until my early retirement from business, I had missed visiting this range. There are not many who have gone deep in these hills and forests, especially due to restrictions imposed on travel after China’s designs on this land. Now as the area gradually awakens, there is much pleasure that awaits a traveller, trekker and climber. The forest are forbidding but the best you will find in the Himalaya, mountains are remote but magnificent and people are out of their isolation recently, but are friendly. There is no better invitation to enjoy this area.

In last two decades I have made many trips to the deep valleys and mountains of Arunachal Pradesh. We were lucky to observe the transition of rural primitive society to a developing world. Process still goes on.