{"id":51764,"date":"2018-11-15T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=51764"},"modified":"2018-11-15T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:49:09","slug":"mountain-bikers-set-for-enchanting-ride-to-mechukha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/mountain-bikers-set-for-enchanting-ride-to-mechukha\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain bikers set for enchanting ride to Mechukha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 14:<\/strong> Around 80 riders are all set for an enchanting ride to Mechukha with Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju flagging off the eight-day Dalmia MTB (Mountain Terrain Biking) Arunachal Flight here this evening.<br \/>\nMechukha, one of the most sought after tourist destinations, is nestled 6000 feet above the sea level in West Siang district.<br \/>\nRiders from 10 countries, including US and Germany are participating in race&#8217;s second edition, besides riders from the country comprising Indian defence forces. There are seven riders from Arunachal, including a woman.<br \/>\nDivided into seven stages, the race will start from Itanagar on Thursday and pass through eight districts, covering a total distance of around 650km in eight days, before reaching its final destination. The riders will make night stopovers at Ziro, Raga, Daporijo, Basar, Kamba and Yapik.<br \/>\nThe race will be flagged in at Mechukha coinciding with the beginning of the adventure@mechukha, a tourism promotional event, on 23 November.<br \/>\nThe presence of famous Bollywood actor Salman Khan during the flagging in ceremony will add more glamour to the event.<br \/>\nSpeaking on the occasion, Rijiju emphasized the need to explore the unexplored and pristine tourist destinations in Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\n&#8220;Arunachal Pradesh has a lot to offer,&#8221; Rijiju said, while urging the riders to promote Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;s tourism, its rich culture and tradition.<br \/>\nHe said the event will be organized in a bigger way the next year.<br \/>\n&#8220;The sole objective of the event is to promote state&#8217;s tourism through adventure sports,&#8221; said Mechukha MLA and MTB Arunachal president Passang Dorjee Sona .<br \/>\nEvent director and SSB Commander Rajesh Thakur informed in details about the biking expedition.<br \/>\nThe Dalmia group of company has sponsored the event.<br \/>\nMLA Nyamar Karbak, representatives from Dalmia group, central and state government officials attended the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Nov 14: Around 80 riders are all set for an enchanting ride to Mechukha with Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju flagging off the eight-day Dalmia MTB (Mountain Terrain Biking) Arunachal Flight here this evening. Mechukha, one of the most sought after tourist destinations, is nestled 6000 feet above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}