Introducing Aizawl
Balanced precariously on a razor-sharp ridge, Aizawl (pronounced eye-zole) could well be the world’s steepest capital. Homes at road level might be held there with rear stilts three times higher than their roofs. In comparison, San Francisco seems as flat as Florida.
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Addresses refer to areas and junctions (‘points’ or ‘squares’). The unnamed spaghetti of roads and steep linking stairways are confusing, but the central ridge road is reasonably flat linking Zodin Sq (old bus station), Upper Bazaar (shops), Zarkawt (hotels and long-distance sumos) and Chandmari (east Mizoram sumos). This section is walkable, although appalling rush-hour traffic creates suffocating fumes.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Overland from Mandalay -->Imphal (India)
by rectravel 05 April 2012
Note the last paragraph in this lyrical article. Is anyone in Kunming talking about this new development? ------------------ Suu Kyi…
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RE: 15 days in May in India' norteaster states
by sbballer33 01 April 2012
Aizawl is in a scenic location but that is all of mizoram yes nothing is open on sunday and everything shuts down by 6:00pm most Christian…
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Re: 15 days in May in India' norteaster states
by gurdil 01 April 2012
Thanks again for your help. Finally there was change of plans, I will have only 10 days (I land on May 3rd in Aizawl and will live on…
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