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GUWAHATI
India’s easternmost village, successful Arunachal Pradesh, is acceptable to invited 2026 with the inaugural Sunrise Festival, an adventure-based taste and tourism celebration.
The festival is scheduled from December 29, 2025, to January 2, 2026.
Dong, a colony successful Anjaw district’s Dong Valley, is the archetypal habitation wherever the archetypal rays of the prima onslaught the Indian ungraded each day.
Announcing the festival connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025), Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said, “Dong, wherever India witnesses its archetypal sunrise, is acceptable to big the State’s first-ever Sunrise Festival for 5 days. This solemnisation highlights Dong’s unsocial favoritism arsenic the easternmost constituent of India. The festival volition connection visitors a uncommon blend of nature, culture, and adventure, portion showcasing the affluent practice of our indigenous communities.”
He stated that the festival aims to beforehand sustainable and liable tourism, make caller livelihood opportunities for section communities, and found Dong arsenic a landmark of India’s geographical and taste individuality connected the planetary tourism map.
Perched 1,240 metres supra the mean oversea level, Dong Valley is astatine the tri-junction of India, China, and Myanmar. The vale holds immense geographical, cultural, and strategical significance, and is location to the small, indigenous Meyor community.
The State’s Tourism officials said the Sunrise Festival 2025-26 is envisioned arsenic a vibrant convergence of communities, artists, explorers, scholars, and travellers from crossed India and astir the world, celebrating caller beginnings from the onshore wherever the time begins for the nation.
“The halfway imaginativeness is to make an acquisition and community-led destination festival guided by India’s archetypal sunrise. The festival is designed arsenic 1 of the astir offbeat New Year celebrations successful India, with ‘no trash, nary trace, nary excuses’ arsenic the Sun Commitment,” an authoritative said.
The item of the festival is expected to beryllium the indigenous sunrise ceremonies welcoming the archetypal airy of each day. The different activities see taste performances by divers communities of the State, guided treks connected sunrise trails, stream activities, camping, people art, section cuisine, and storytelling sessions.
Dong is 7 km from Walong, a large theatre of struggle during the Chinese aggression successful 1962. The spot is astir 200 km from the nearest airdrome astatine Tezu, the office of Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district.
