About Ziro
Ziro 167 km from Itanagar is a beautiful plateau destination for nature lovers. Ziro is the headquarters of Lower Subansiri District Arunachal Pradesh Northeast India. It is one of the oldest towns in Arunachal Pradesh. This wonderful hill station is located 1500m above sea level. The place has an imposing landscape of beautiful lush green forest, rivulets, and elevated patches. It is famous for paddy-cum-pisciculture cultivation. The area is renowned for the terrace paddy fields where the unique system of poly-culture and water management is practiced by the local people. this type of agriculture is only found in the northeast. Ziro Mainly inhabited by the Apatani tribe, the town wears a festive look during festivals celebrated by the Apatani people.
Ziro is famous for its culture and traditional lifestyle, their art & craft, and their agriculture pattern. Ziro is also known for its ziro music festival
People of Ziro
The Apatanis, one of the major ethnic groups of eastern Himalayas, have a distinct civilization with systematic land-use practices and rich traditional ecological knowledge of natural resources management and conservation, acquired over the centuries through informal experimentation. The tribe is known for their colorful culture with various festivals, intricate handloom designs, skills in cane and bamboo crafts, and vibrant traditional village councils called bulyañ. This has made Ziro Valley a good example of a living cultural landscape where man and environment have harmoniously existed together in a state of interdependence even through changing times, such co-existence being nurtured by the traditional customs and spiritual belief systems.The community has evolved a unique skill of rice-fish cultivation where along with paddy, fish is also reared on the fields.
Village Tour:
Hong Village
Hong village is in the middle of the Ziro Valley and this village is a place for an Apatani tribe. It is approximately a half an hour walk from Ziro to Hong Village. In Hong Village, most of the houses have a field that has a small pond and are used for fish farming and frog rearing. Inside the traditional houses in Hong village, they have a fireplace in between and most of the time the family seat around the fireplace and enjoys their meals, roasted fish, etc. In Hong village, we can see most of the women working in fields instead of men. And the women also have lots of tattoos on their faces as it is their tradition. The people of Hong village are one of the few people in the world who continue to live in harmony with nature. Hong Village Community remains proud of its traditional history while maintaining a balance with the changing world. The Village Community even uses the elevated partition bunds between rice plots to grow millets. Using nature-friendly and sustainable techniques alone, they have successfully conserved forests around the valley, which serve as watersheds for streamlets flowing down to irrigate your fields. Their simple bamboo huts perched on top of vertical wooden stilts force us to rethink our consumerist approach towards living.
Ziro Festival of Music
Ziro Music Festival is an outdoor music festival held in the Ziro valley in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It showcases the independent music scene in India. Ziro Festival is noted to be one of the most eco-friendly festivals in India employing locally sourced material for the infrastructure. The festival has two stages, Donyi(Sun) and Polo(Moon), constructed by local artisans and made almost completely of bamboo. This is inspired by the animist Donyi Polo faith prevalent in the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. The festival has a zero plastic policy and encourages attendees to be responsible for leaving behind no waste. The journey to the Ziro Festival of Music is an adventurous one.
What to see in and around ZIRO?
KILE PAKHO:
A ridge located at 7 km. from old Ziro. On a fine morning, one can have clear bird’s views of the Ziro plateau on one side and the snow range of the Himalayas called “NYIME PEMBU” on the other.
PINE GROOVE:
Pine clad area about 3 km. from old Ziro. GREF (Border Road Organization) established in December 1961 is located around this scenic grandeur.
MIDEY:
A place famous for gigantic SAT-NII PIISHA and SAMENII, a Blue pine tree (Pinus wallichina) being the biggest and tallest tree in the Apatani valley measuring about 7 (seven) meters at GBH (Girth at Breast Height). One can trek to the bamboo groove through the paddy field to see these gigantic blue pine trees which are 2 Km from old Ziro.
ZIRO PUTU:
Sometimes called ARMY PUTU is a Hillock at old Ziro where the first administrative centre was set up after India’s Independence in 1952 and ARMY cantonment was located in the sixties. From this hillock, one can have a bird’s eye view of the Apatani plateau. The Airport is also located beneath this hillock in the midst of the scenic paddy field.
DOLO MANDO:
A hillock of legendary love affairs between DOLO & MANDO. It is located at 2 KM from Hapoli towards Old Ziro on the western side of ZIRO – Daporijo Road. One can trek to the top to see the Hapoli Town on one side and old Ziro on another side.
TARIN FISH FARM:
About 3.5 km from Hapoli Town, one can see a beautiful high altitude fish farm where breeding of high altitude fishes is done. The fingerlings are sold during paddy cultivation season.
A famous innovative cultivation practice followed in Apatani plateau, now a day, where fishes are reared along with paddy cultivation. The paddy cum fish cultivation procedure is one of the major attractions of Ziro, as this is rare and not seen and practiced elsewhere. After transplanting of paddy from the nursery in wet rice cultivation field (W.R.C.), the fish fingerlings are put in MUGO (channels in paddy field for drainage of water) at knee-deep height that are kept for 2-3 months before harvesting of fish.
A famous innovative cultivation practice followed in Apatani plateau, now a day, where fishes are reared along with paddy cultivation. The paddy cum fish cultivation procedure is one of the major attractions of Ziro, as this is rare and not seen and practiced elsewhere. After transplanting of paddy from the nursery in wet rice cultivation field (W.R.C.), the fish fingerlings are put in MUGO (channels in the paddy field for drainage of water) at a knee-deep height that are kept for 2-3 months before harvesting of fish.
One stem monopodial Bamboo, (Phyllostachys bamboosoides) grown with blue-clad pine, is one of the expert practices of farm forestry followed in this part of the world. One will appreciate their expertise when one venture inside in this groove in conjunction with hiking and picnic...
One stem monopodial Bamboo, (Phyllostachys bamboosoides) grown with blue-clad pine, is one of the expert practices of farm forestry followed in this part of the world. One will appreciate their expertise when one ventures inside in this groove in conjunction with hiking and picnic...
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