Itanagar

Angling and fishing for fishing and angling lovers, there are variety of opportunities within the state of Arunachal Pradesh, especially if you’re getting to catch a trout or a mahseer, which is taken into account to be a troublesome one to urge on the hook. Most of the bountiful catch are often found in rivers Siang and Subansiri.

Jawaharlal Nehru museum is one among the oldest museums within the Northeast of India. For 46 years, Arunachal Pradesh was the sole state within the Northeast to possess a museum aside from the Assam State Museum. Nehru museum stands together of the foremost cherished ethnographic museums within the country. The museum features a vast and rich collection of household articles, musical instruments, cane products, religious objects, handicrafts, textiles, weaponry that reflects the tribal heritage and culture of the state. A workshop on the way to make traditional cane products runs at the museum and a store within the premises sells tribal handicraft items. the primary person from the state to possess successfully climbed Mt Everest, Tapi Mra, donated his entire expedition gear to the Nehru Museum. While the bottom floor of the museum displays traditional art, handicraft items, religious objects and musical instruments, the primary floor comprises historical findings from Malinithan, Noksparbat and Ita Fort. Its establishment was sponsored by the State Implementation committee under the chairmanship of the then governor RD Pradhan and vice chairmanship of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang.

Built in the 14th and 15th centuries, Ita Fort, which accurately means fort of bricks, is a crucial heritage site within the state of Arunachal Pradesh. it’s in an irregular shape and is formed from bricks from an equivalent era. The fort has guarded the dominion from enemies for years with its high walls and its relevance is such the name of the town of Itanagar comes from it.

Ita Fort is enclosed by brick ramparts and natural ridges. it’s believed that around 80 lakh bricks were wont to construct the fort in those days with the quantity taken by it totalling 16,200 cubic m. Another interesting fact about the development of the fort is that it took around 45,000 man days for its construction. There are three different entrances – eastern, western and southern – to the fort. While the eastern rampart of the fort is quite half-a-kilometre long and has one gate, the western rampart is over 1.4 km long with two gates. the first height of the rampart was around 5 m and therefore the average wall width around 1.5 m. Irregular steep ridges of over a kilometre long in each of the northern and southern directions provided natural defence. Built of stone masonry, the eastern gate overlooks Doimukh in Dikrang Valley whereas the southern gate was constructed with brick along side the utilization of stone and stone-slabs. Floral and animated designs were wont to beautify the doorways which are nowhere to be found now. These doors acted as a checkpoint for enemies approaching the fort from Gohpur and Ramghat within the south. Probably the most entrance was the one within the west which faced River Senkhi.

While scholars attribute Ita Fort to Jitari dynasty’s King Ramachandra who apparently constructed it between 1350 and 1450 AD, another newer view is of the opinion that it had been inbuilt 1688 AD by Ahom king Chakradhvaj Simha.