Travel Story #3 "SELA PASS" – HISTORY AND ROMANCE MEET AT A HEIGHT OF 13000 FEET

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Sela Pass in Tawang Arunachal Pradesh (INDIA)

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Clouds on earth en route to Tawang

It's chilled weather and there is snow scattered all around me. I go searching and suppose that if there may be heaven in the world, then this must be it. Surrounding me are cotton candy clouds that have descended from the sky to earth overlaying everything from mountain peaks to grasslands, vegetation, and birds. As I am getting right down to take in the view, they touch my cheeks lightly. Small mountain peaks thrust their heads out of those clouds providing a pretty picture. I am wrapped in a global of white.

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Tawang-landscape

We were driving from Dirang, a small hill station in Arunachal Pradesh towards Tawang set high inside the eastern Himalayas. The mountains curve as River Kameng flows at the side of us.

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A frozen Sela Lake

As we retain on the way snow-clad mountains supply us enterprise till we attain a glacier which opens to a gate guarded by dragons with shiny colored flags fluttering all around. A frozen lake greets me. A small tea save stands across the nook.

we're at Sela skip, in which struggle and romance meet at thirteen, seven hundred ft above sea stage. The bloodless breeze blows in my face as I go searching. There aren't any tourists besides us on the street.more than one dogs frolic in the snow.And a tale of tragedy unfolds amidst the scattered snow.

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Sela Pass near Tawang

Sela turned into a neighborhood woman who cherished Jaswant, an Indian soldier in opposition to her father’s needs. during the Indo-China battle, Jaswant Singh single-handedly alone fought with Chinese for three days by using fooling them while Sela delivered him ammunition and meals from the camp.

The tale goes that Jaswant positioned himself on a hill pinnacle in a protracted trench and positioned rifles to present an impact that the whole navy turned into behind him. finally, he was betrayed by Sela’s father and became captured and beheaded with the aid of the Chinese. Sela in soreness devoted suicide by leaping from a hillock. A brass bust of Jaswant is saved in Jaswant Garh, additionally the web page of the battle. Sela has a pass at 13,700 ft named after her.
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Entry to Jaswant Garh

We stroll as much as the small keep to have some tea. We drink in silence. it's miles biting bloodless. We forestall and stare tough on the placid clouds, tugging at the mountains.it is just us, the dogs and nature at its silent satisfactory. Sitting there, for what feels like eternity, I comprehend that almost every destination tells a story – of affection, of betrayal, of patriotism, like the story of Sela and Jaswant.

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The gate at Sela Pass to Tawang

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