Small town Jung
Morning Colors: small town Jung, Arunachal Pradesh.
At Jung:
A few hours at the small town of Jung while going to Tawang was enough to make me want to return and spend some more time here, the others had felt the same way, and so on our return from Tawang we spent a day here. The town may have had a bloody history(Jung means war) but it is quiet and as laid back as it can get: the historic moment remembered now is not the war but the shooting of a few scenes of a film(Koyla) with Madhuri and Shahrukh at a waterfall nearby; the waterfall is now called Madhuri falls. It is difficult to pinpoint what brought us back, the innocence, the quaintness, the freshness, the slowness, the silence, but whatever it was, we all felt it and the day here was to become one of the high-points of the trip.
We took a walk in the evening towards a gompa overlooking the town, stopping on the way at a viewpoint; we didn't go to the gompa but towards a monk living around there, but not finding him we enjoyed the beauty of the pink blossoms on a tree nearby. The sky which had been overcast till then opened up while we walked back -someone had said 'You cannot trust two things in Jung, the girls and the weather'- a deep blue sky with a half-moon playing hide-and-seek with a few passing clouds. While we were having tea and breakfast at a hotel ready to head back to Guwahati the next morning, the sun shone through the mountains lighting up the multi-colored prayer flags fluttering in the wind, saying good bye, come again.
and that completes the series of posts for this trip: North-East, Mar 17-Apr 1, 2007