Go deep to
Yingkiong in January
The Upper Siang headquarters.
Quick answer. Deep winter at altitude. Snow closes or slows high passes; Sela conditions rule the Tawang circuit. For Yingkiong specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Circuit
- Pasighat-Yingkiong-Tuting (official)
- Role
- Upper Siang HQ
- Month
- January, Arunachal Pradesh
- This month
- Deep winter at altitude.
Why January here
The quiet base on the official Pasighat-Yingkiong-Tuting circuit.
Yingkiong is the Upper Siang headquarters on the official Pasighat-Jengging-Yingkiong-Tuting circuit: a small town of Adi and Memba communities, gorge viewpoints and the road onward to Tuting and the great bend country.
What to do
Gorge country
The Siang’s wild middle reaches.
Pair it with
Yingkiong in January, planned properly
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