Ledo Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in/tag/ledo/ Mon, 10 May 2021 11:43:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://travellenz.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-TravelLenzFavicon-512x512-32x32.png Ledo Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in/tag/ledo/ 32 32 Pangsau Pass, Stillwell Road and Arun’s Story https://travellenz.in/pangsau-pass-stilwell-road-arun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pangsau-pass-stilwell-road-arun https://travellenz.in/pangsau-pass-stilwell-road-arun/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:04:41 +0000 http://travellenz.wordpress.com/?p=809 We let the dust from the road shimmy around our feet and the silence wrap us from all around. In front of us stood the board we had traveled over 4000 km to see. It read – Pangsau Pass It was a sight we had seen without having been there. And it also wasn’t déjà vu. [...]

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]]> https://travellenz.in/pangsau-pass-stilwell-road-arun/feed/ 47 Digboi: Remnants of a War and Oil Well https://travellenz.in/digboi-war-oil-well/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digboi-war-oil-well https://travellenz.in/digboi-war-oil-well/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:20:49 +0000 http://travellenz.wordpress.com/?p=281  So, how did Asia’s first oil refinery get its name? You heard it right – Digboi. The year: 1882 Engineers, commissioned by the Assam Railways and Trading Company (AR&TC), were using elephants to haul the tracks amidst the swampy dense forests of north-eastern Assam. They were extending the railway line from Dibrugarh to Margherita. The AR&TC [...]

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