Siang Tea Garden Lodge

Arunachal Pradesh


Lounge amid lush tea gardens at the Siang Tea Garden Lodge, which has simple but comfy rooms with ethnic-themed decor, garden-fresh tea and awesome, mostly organic food prepared by Babul, the in-house chef. Rates here are flexible; those willing to participate in community-development and welfare programmes often get a discount. Oyan is about 25km south of Pasighat.

While here you could visit silk-weaving villages or the Daying-Ering Wildlife Sanctuary (on islands in the Siang River), known for its migratory birds in winter. The Donyi-Polo estate's Golden Needles tea broke the world record for tea price when 1.1kg of it went for ₹40,000 at the Guwahati Tea Auction in 2018.