Eat oranges in
Things to do in Dambuk
The orange valley with its own December festival.
The list
The short version: Lower Dibang’s citrus country: orchards, the Orange Festival of music and motorsport, and river isolation in monsoon.
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Festival weekend
Music stages between the orchards.
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Orchard drives
December fruit stands along the road.
Know before you go
- Crop
- Oranges
- Festival
- Dambuk Orange Festival (Dec, announced annually)
- From Pasighat
- About 90km
- Permit
- ILP required
Dambuk is the orange country of Lower Dibang Valley: orchards across the valley floor, and each December the Orange Festival mixes indie music, motorsport and fruit in the fields. In monsoon the rivers cut it off, which is part of its legend.
Best time: November-February; December for the festival.
Practicals
Permits & season for Arunachal Pradesh
ILP required for Indian nationals; PAP for most foreign nationals. Arranged ahead of travel; we handle it for booked travellers.
March to June and September to November are the clean windows; high passes close or turn risky in winter and peak monsoon.
Dambuk month by month
Festivals tied to Dambuk
Places to visit near Dambuk
All of Dambuk, none of the guesswork
Fixed departures you can join solo, or a private plan around your dates. Prices on the page, real people on WhatsApp.
Keep planning
- Arunachal Pradesh travel guide
- Flying into Tezu Airport: flights, cabs and onward connections
- Naharlagun Station railway station: trains, cabs and onward connections
- Arunachal Pradesh permits: the complete guide
- Anini travel guide, the Dibang Valley questionfrom the journal
- The Apatani People of Ziro: Culture, Land and Festivalsfrom the journal
- Dambuk and its Orange Festival: Arunachal's Sweetest Decemberfrom the journal