Kohima - Nagaland May 2016

Dag 16. Kohima

Kohima, som er
Nagalands hovedstad, ligger på en bjergtop. I dag lejede vi en taxi, vi kørte
først til en Nagaland landsby ( Kisama Heritage village) ca. 20 km fra Kohima.

Desværre regnede det, så vi var ikke rigtig ude af bilen og se landsbyen. Vi så
udsigten til alle de terrasse anlagte marker fra bilen. 

                                               Bench terraces - Terrasse marker

Tilbage i Kohima, så vi den store krigskirkegård, en mindelund fra 2. verdenskrig, over slaget ved
Kohima. Det foregik her i Kohima området fra 4. april til 22. juni 1944, mellem
de allierede styrker og Japan. Der var ca1400 engelske/indiske soldater som døde.

Efterfølgende var vi på det lokale marked hvor vi så hundekød, larver, frøer og ål, alle
delikatesser her i Nagaland. 

                                           Maggots and garlic - Maddiker og hvidløg

Jeg tror vi skal passe lidt på med, hvad vi bestiller når vi skal spise.

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31.5 Kohima

A beautiful town, Nagaland’s Capital, perched on top of a
hill.

Kohima is well known for its ‘Hornbill’ and its music
festival. It is the Naga’s custom of head hunting, that has always send shivers
down my spine, and the taking of an enemy’s head was always considered a sign
of strength. The last recorded occurrence was in 1963.

Nagaland 

 I personally feel this head hunting tradition should carry on, by all Indians, against our politicians.

Today over 90 % of the Naga people consider themselves Christians and everybody speaks perfect English here.

Again a “dry” city/state.

Hired a taxi for the 4 of us and went sightseeing. First stop was Kisama Heritage Village, which is about 20 km from Kohima. This village hosts the annual Hornbill festival and has traditional Naga houses. Sadly it was raining “cats and dogs” (wet state) so we did not get to see much of the Naga houses.

From there on, straight back into town, where we visited the War Cemetery.

                                         The War Cemetery.  - Krigskirkegården

This Immaculate War Memorial, contains the graves of 1400 British
and Indian soldiers. This was where the battle of Kohima was fought, and these
brave men died protecting us from the onslaught of the Japanese which had
occupied Burma.
They fought to protect the very road we were driving through, as this was the
only pass from Burma into India. ( Sad that we are so ignorant of our heroic soldiers).

Had lunch in a beautiful restaurant ( they served us beer).

                                     Selling snails, snakes etc / Salg af snegle, slanger og ål

After lunch, we drove to the central market, to tickle our taste buds. We observed vendors selling delicacies like maggots, dog meat, snails, frogs, snakes and eels.

                                                            Dog meat - Hundekød
Mouth vomit/watering experience. Bargaining for a few Eels, but found out that the price was so low, that they could have only been bad quality or stale. We decided not to buy them. We returned back to our hotel, to gather our thoughts, and speculate about dinner.

I ordered Japanese beef for dinner, and shit, it was the toughest beef I have ever tasted in my life. It tasted like “dried leather” or maybe it was … meat. We even got Janet and Louis to taste it.

                                                               Kohima