Assam

• Capital: Dispur
• Population: 22.4 Millon
• Area: 78,523 sq. km
• Language: Assamese, Bodo
• Best Season: February-April
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Places to See Around

Martyrs’ Tomb Maniharan Tunnel Kanchakanti Kali Mandir Bagheswari Temple Jaypal Than Panchpeer DargahaPanchpeer Dargaha Palace of Kachari Kings Malinithan Temple Bihu Dance Elephant Safari janardan temple Chetiagaon Sundaridiya Satra Champawati Kunda Ugro Tara Temple Da Parbatia Ganakkuchi Satra The “Majhar” of Hazarat Sayed Abul Kasem Kharasani Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium Jokai Botanical Garden cum Germplasm Center

Assam (Asom, Axom) is a beautiful and diverse state with an incredible range of cultures and landscapes located in the northeast of India. It shares it’s borders in the North and East with the Kingdom of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. Along the south lies Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Meghalaya lies to her South-West, Bengal and Bangladesh to her West.

Assam has many fascinating things to see and experience, including the Kaziranga National Park, home to the world famous and rare one horned rhinoceros, the remarkable Majuli island, ancient Ahom architectural marvels and numerous Golf courses backed by beautiful heritage/luxury resorts and colonial tea bungalows. Renowned for its tea, rich flora and fauna and other rare species of wildlife on the verge of extinction, there is perhaps no part of the world where such a variety of wildlife exists barring Africa.

Travel to Assam and you will find everything, from spectacular scenery and rare wildlife to vibrant cultures and soul stirring places of pilgrimage. Guwahati stretches along both sides of the Brahmaputra. Its Kamakhya temple is a very important Mother Goddess shrine for Hindus who visit in thousands from the rest of India. Also important are the Navgraha (9-Planets) temple, the Umananda temple, located on an island, and the ruins of the 10th-c Madan Kamdev temple with erotic carvings, 50 km away. Assamese silk, bamboo and cane products are the best souvenirs to take home from here.

Majuli, the world's largest river-island, is situated in the midst of Brahmaputra in north-east Assam. It is the centre of Assamese Vaishnava culture, with over 15 Vaishnava monasteries, which are treasure houses of Assamese art, music, dance, drama, handicrafts etc.  Also in north Assam, towns like Jorhat, Sibsagar or Tezpur, offer typical tea-garden experiences.

 

The two national parks of Assam Kaziranga and Manas are World Heritage Sites for their biodiversity. The Kaziranga region is home to the extremely endangered animal, the Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros, as also to the rare Hoolock Gibbon and Bengal Florican.