THE NORTHEASTERN Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh features on Lonely Planet travel magazine’s ‘Top 21 under-the-radar destinations of the world’ list.
The list published in May features the less explored and unconventional tourist destinations of the world.
Arunachal was recently also the second runners-up among Lonely Planet’s emerging destinations in India.
“Arunachal Pradesh, the land of the dawn-lit mountains, is surely high on any list of candidates for the mythical realm of Shangri-La. It has historically been inaccessible from any, an unknown place so remote that few of its thunderous Himalayan peaks have been named, let alone climbed,” the magazine article says.
Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh has also been chosen by India’s tourism ministry to host the International Travel Mart in October.
