Bathe (if you must) at
Parashuram Kund in December
The gorge where the sage found release.
Quick answer. Winter. Snow returns to the high passes; valley circuits run with weather buffers. For Parashuram Kund specifically, December is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Legend
- Parashuram’s axe fell away here
- Fair
- Mid-January, Makar Sankranti
- From Tezu
- About 20km
- Month
- December, Arunachal Pradesh
- This month
- Winter.
Why December here
A pilgrimage site on the Lohit where, by legend, Parashuram’s axe fell; the January fair fills the gorge.
Parashuram Kund is the Lohit gorge pilgrimage site: legend says the axe that stuck to the sage Parashuram’s hands fell away when he bathed here. On Makar Sankranti in mid-January the fair brings tens of thousands to bathe in the river.
What to do
The January fair
Pilgrims, sadhus and riverside bazaars.
Pair it with
Parashuram Kund in December, planned properly
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