Stilwell Road to Pangsau Pass Festival

Pangsau Pass is on the border between Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar. Since 2016, an annual festival has been held to celebrate the tribal groups that straddle the border. To get there, one travels on the Stilwell Road to Nampong. The Stilwell or Ledo Road was a WWII project that began in December 1942 and ended in May 1945. It was built to connect British India to China in the fight against the Japanese. General Joseph Stilwell was the name of the American in charge of the project. The road was built to transport supplies to China from Ledo in Assam overland to Kunming in China via Pangsau Pass (elevation 1,136m). The pass was the first big obstacle encountered by the engineers in charge of the road. The pass was nicknamed "Hell's Pass" due to frequent landslides. Pangsau is the name of the village on the Myanmar side of the pass and Nampong is on the Indian side of the pass. Nampong is where we went for the Pangsau Pass Festival on January 20th, 2020. Stilwell...