Day 4

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 Day 4: Breakfast was a vegetable-loaded affair - rice noodles cleverly rebranded as “Sevai” by your own Tambrahm travellers - and a medley of leftover rice jazzed up with so many veggies, even Popeye would have done a double-take. Naturally, adrak chai and leftover rasam from the previous night made a cameo, ensuring our culinary journey never truly left South India.

Warm farewells were bid to Nima Homestay and its ultra-hospitable family.


The road beckoned, with the 1962 war memorial serving as a reminder that our travel woes were nothing compared to the grit of real heroes.







Next, we stopped at the Baisakhi military café for their “famous” coffee  - strong enough to wake anyone trapped in tourist-mode since 6 am. Having decided to skip the hot spring bath we could indulge in few of the other eminently visitable spots.




As we scaled the Sela Pass at 13,700 ft, the 7°C chill made our noses run marathons, yet we could hardly pull ourselves away from the serene vistas.







Then came the hero shot at Nurang Falls where we discovered we were standing on the “Koyla movie location,” SRK’s DNA forever imprinted in the rocks (or maybe that was just enthusiastic trekking sweat). Rainbow-chasing was officially part of the agenda. The first sight of the breathtaking waterfalls and the perfect rainbow will be etched forever in what is an otherwise fickle memory in this insta age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuranang_Falls


Arriving in Tawang meant meeting traffic that redefined “snail’s pace” - ten minutes became 45, followed by a trudge worthy of Himalayan goats to reach our lofty Airbnb. The evening’s existential dilemma: “What in the world do we cook for dinner?” Chef K , undeterred, whipped up beetroot aloo sabzi so delicious it almost made us forget we’d just home-delivered bread, butter, and milk… to the mountains! (talk about technology and enterprise) Dinner was packed into toast sandwiches with sweet potatoes on the side, closing out another chaotic, scenic, and snack-filled chapter. Mention of sandwiches has to include the mention of the fabulous ready to mix sandwich Chutney mix of ASR which was thoughtfully brought by S. Cut the pack, mix with voila and yummy sandwich chutney is ready, thank God for these small mercies !! The quaint interaction with Sonam our Air BNB manager who was also balancing a bundle of school books ( ever the multitasker) while answering all our queries was another thing which stayed on in our memories for a few days.

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  1. CA S SrinivasanNovember 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM

    Loved how you turned Tawang’s traffic, dinner dilemmas and Airbnb adventures into a riot of humour and Himalayan drama, making every tiny detail, from Chef K’s beetroot genius to Sonam’s multitasking, feel like blockbuster storytelling. And the fact that we travelled the same route almost parallelly with another group makes this narrative hit even harder, because now I can relive every sandwich, every struggle and every small mercy with twice the appreciation.

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  2. radhaDecember 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM

    The sacred lake is awesome..beautiful serene look..indeed the sandwiches made with the speedy home delivery of foodies in that high mountains and the ready to eat chutney made teh dinner so wholesome !!!

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