“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” – Jeannette Walls. The beauty of sunrise where Mother Earth opens her eyes to us is breath taking. As we all know the Sun rises in the East. But where does the sun rise first in India. Dong, a small village  in Dong valley of Anjaw district, Arunachal Pradesh  first witnesses the sunrise in India. It is located at  the confluence of the rivers Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, and Sati, and is strategically sandwiched between China and Myanmar. In 1999, it was discovered that Dong witnesses the first sunrise in India.

Since then, tourists have been flocking this part  at 3 am to see the sun rise, The village can be reached on foot from Walong in a 30-minute climb. There is no motorable road to Dong and no one lives there now. Earlier, below the Dong plateau, there was a village consisting of three households. But due to scarcity of water all of them have shifted to a nearby village called ‘Subkung.