Pasighat Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Helicopters from Pasighat Aerodrome (2222088; 8am-noon Mon-Sat), 3km northeast, serve Naharlagun (Itanagar) via Mohanbari (Dibrugarh) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Guwahati via Naharlagun on Tuesday and Tuting via Along on Friday.

The inconveniently located APST bus station has services to Along (Rs 100, 5½ hours) at 7am daily (except Wednesday) and Itanagar (Rs 170) at 6am (except Monday). Sumos run to Along (Rs 200, 5½ hours) at 6am and Hotel Siang (2224559) sells jeep-boat-jeep combination tickets (Rs 250, eight hours) to Dibrugarh via the DKO ferry. This departs from Oriamghat (Assam), a lonely sandbank 30km from Pasighat (7km off the NH52). En route notice photogenic Sille village set in wide rice fields 20km from Pasighat (NH52, Km 523).