Ride up to
Nampong in January
The Stilwell Road town under Pangsau Pass.
Quick answer. Deep winter at altitude. Snow closes or slows high passes; Sela conditions rule the Tawang circuit. For Nampong specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Road
- Ledo-Stilwell Road
- Festival
- Pangsau Pass Festival (Jan window)
- Pass
- Pangsau Pass, about 3,700ft
- Month
- January, Arunachal Pradesh
- This month
- Deep winter at altitude.
Why January here
The Changlang border town on the old Ledo road, with the Pangsau Pass climb and Lake of No Return beyond.
Nampong is the border town at the foot of Pangsau Pass on the old Ledo-Stilwell Road: WWII wreckage relics, the January Pangsau Pass Festival, and the road climbing toward the Myanmar line at 3,700ft, with the still, supposedly bottomless Lake of No Return nearby.
What to do
Stilwell relics
Wartime bridges and wreckage along the climb.
Lake of No Return
The border lake wrapped in its own mythology.
Pair it with
Nampong in January, planned properly
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