/> 27 July would remain a red-letter day in Priyanka's life.

Priyanka Chopra decided to go to the Tenga Velley in Arunachal Pradesh to record a programme for a tv channel.

"The funniest thing was, a week before I went to Tenga Valley, there had been a bomb attack on Guwahati. I didn't want to take the easy route and go to Ladakh and Siayachen or the other places where our soldiers are stationed. I wanted to go somewhere no one else had.

I wanted to show viewers on television where our jawans have to be to fight for us. People don't even know Tenga Valley exists. It's the absolute border on the East. No one wants to go there because there's a lot of insurgency in that area. We had to drive from Guwahati to Tejpur and then to Tenga Valley."

Priyanka was accompanied by her mother."I really wanted my dad on the show because of his army connection. But he wasn't well, and I didn't want him to go through the grueling journey. Thank God I didn't take my dad with me, not after what we went through."

Recounts Priyanka, "After doing the show with the jawaans at Tenga Valley we were warned not to drive back in the night in the pouring rain. So we left at 3. 30 am. Three hours later we were struck in a landslide. A massive part of the mountain had fallen on the road. We had to spend nearly twelve hours stuck in the long line of traffic without any signal for the cellphones."

Once Priyanka got a hang of the situation she had loads of fun."Thankfully there was an army mess close-by. We telephoned for help. The bulldozers came in half an hour. But it took them eight hours to clear the landslide. Thankfully because of the mess, we had food and we distributed it in cars all around us."

The other travelers stuck in the landslide must have had a field day having Priyanka in their midst.

"For a while they took pictures of me, and the landslide. Then they got bored of both. The funniest thing was, after the landslide was cleared at 7 pm we left...only to be stuck again because the River Brahmaputra had flown on to the road. That was scary.

Because the locals were all around us. We had to get out of our cars and get into a bus that was arranged. I've a video recording of all the adventure that we had. By the time we got to Tejpur it was almost morning. We were exhausted."

Priyanka sees this as a life-changing experience."I saw Nature at its fiercest. I had earlier seen the Tsunami...on the same date, July 27, two years earlier. Isn't that bizarre? I realized we in the film industry are too insulated. We're all taken up with shooting and catching flights. I feel, if you want to keep it real for yourself, you can. As much as I love the luxurious life I like the thought of roughing it out once in a while."

Coincidentally it was Priyanka's birthday earlier this month."We had to cancel the party because a relative expired. I'm not a party person anyway. I much preferred the road adventure as a birthday gift."

She's also moving into her new house."My designer Suzanne Roshan says at the of October. But I don't think it will happen before November-December. I'm very eager to move in."