Adventure Tours
Why travel to Northeast India for adventure and treks?
Northeast India is one of the last real frontiers for adventure travel. The terrain is rugged, the landscapes are untouched, and much of the wilderness has barely been walked — which makes it ideal for trekking, mountaineering and river rafting, or for gentler hikes, riverside camping and swims in turquoise natural pools. These are small, guided expeditions, not adventure parks, and every itinerary below can be reshaped around your pace and experience.
Trek to the Beyul of Pemako
23 Days / 22 NightsTrek to the Beyul of Pemako
23 Days / 22 Nights · Arunachal Pradesh
A hard, once-in-a-lifetime trek into the Beyul of Pemako, the hidden land in the shape of a lotus and the most sacred ground in Tibetan Buddhism. Ten days beyond the last village, over Titapori at 14,000 feet to the heart lake of Danakosha, and out through the Buddhist hamlets of the upper Siang.
- — The sacred kora of Pemako
- — Danakosha at 13,000 feet
- — Ten days beyond the last village
9 Days / 8 NightsRainforest Trekking in Northeast India
9 Days / 8 Nights · Arunachal Pradesh
A moderately paced trek into Namdapha, India’s largest national park, where India turns into Southeast Asia. Camp in the rainforest among hornbills, walk to the Firmbase riverbed under the Himalaya, and stay with the Lisu at Embeong.
- — Namdapha National Park
- — Rainforest camping
- — A Lisu village stay
9 Days / 8 NightsAngling and Rafting in the Subansiri River
9 Days / 8 Nights · Arunachal Pradesh
Run the Subansiri, the gold river, through a roadless Himalayan valley on a raft, camping on sandy beaches under the stars and fishing the deep pools for the golden mahseer.
- — Grade 3+ Himalayan whitewater
- — Golden mahseer fishing
- — Riverside beach camps
9 Days / 8 NightsAdventure Travel in Meghalaya
9 Days / 8 Nights · Meghalaya
Waterfall swims and a zip line near Jowai, the root-bridge descent to Nongriat, the hidden falls and caves of Cherrapunji, and river treks at Mawlyngbna.
- — Phe Phe and Krang Suri falls
- — Living root bridges
- — River treks at Mawlyngbna
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Arunachal Pradesh
Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains
High passes, wild rivers and deep rainforest, from Tawang to the Siang valley and Namdapha.
Read the Arunachal Pradesh guideLooking for adventure that is off the edge of the map, this is it! This part of India is rarely visited by Westerners
Greg Miller
Canada · Trek to the Beyul of Pemako
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