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Good bye Tawang, Good bye Bittu!

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Day 5 March 19 2008 Tawang Around 6:30 AM, we all were ready and we checked out and came down. Bittu as usual had a surprise for us... He said, Paing, the actual driver who was supposed to come 2 days back had arrived atlast! And he will be coming with us to Tezpur.. We said we are sorry we cannot accomodate one more in the car as there was not enough space. I should admit that we were acting a bit rude, but Bittu had forced us to act that way. We told Paing we are sorry, either you can drive or let Bittu himself drive. In that case, you can come to Tezpur on your own. He said its ok. I'll come somehow. We stared at around 7:00 AM and reached Tezpur at 7:00 PM. In between Bittu never ceased to amuse us by inventing new techniques in "How to be a very BAD driver" We had to tell him so many times to stop for breakfast, lunch and even 'susu'!!! He pretended not to hear... said you'll get good food in thwe next village only... we cannot stop here... It was as if w

Tawang sightseeing

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Day 4 March 18 2008 Tawang Today's plan was to visit the Tawang Monastery, Maduri Lake, go to the Border and see china (if possible, get some soil/snow from china), some local sight seeing etc etc. But to visit the Maduri lake and Border we need to get permits from Deputy Commissioner's Office which will open at 10:00AM. So we decided to visit the Monastery first. As soon as Bittu came, he told we cannot go to the Maduri lake and Border. You need to take permit and it will take 1 day. After telling him to shut the fu-- up, we told him to take us to the Monastery. Around 9:30 AM we finished the Monastery and museum and reached the Deputy Commissioner's Office. We were the first group to reach there and gave the application for the permits. Around 10:30 AM we got the permits and told Bittu to start. Even though we were the first to get the permit, Bittu knowingly allowed other cabs to start first and then followed behind. On the way it started snowing and we enjoyed it whenev