Travel + Leisure India & South Asia

WE RISE IN THE EAST

Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads

….the song plays on loop in my head as my vehicle navigates Arunachal Pradesh’s bucolic countryside. I am following a convoy of some of India’s leading female bikers—Kalyani Potekar, Candida Louis, Dr Maral Yazarloo-Pattrick and Tenzin Metoh—for a journey of a lifetime. The purpose of this trip? To explore an all-new travel circuit in Arunachal Pradesh as well as some of the state’s hidden gems.

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