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Assam - Meghalaya Tour

 

Sail on the Brahmaputra, visit remote villages, take an elephant safari in Kaziranga National Park, then continue to Shillong in the Land of the Clouds

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Kaziranga National Park, then travel to Bhutan from India

 

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 Dibrugarh - Jorhat - Kaziranga - Shillong - Guwahati

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Itinerary: find map covering the itinerary on the bottom of the page.

 

Day 1: Kolkata / Dibrugarh.
Meals Included: Lunch / Dinner.
Arrive Dibrugarh by flight. You’ll be received at the airport and transferred to the heritage Chang Bungalow in the midst of a rolling tea garden. After lunch you’ll take a tea tour around a tea estate to learn tea - its origin , how it is grown and all about tea tasting and quality. Evening enjoy an ethnic cultural performance in the bungalow lawns. Overnight at the Chang Bungalow.


Day 2 : Dibrugarh.
Meals Included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After early breakfast you’ll get ready for a day trip to Digboi. Enroute you’ll we stop at the Tai Phakial village - an ethnic village, of the kith and kin of the Ahoms who ruled Assam for 600 years and who still maintaining their age old culture. At Digboi , the first Oil town of South Asia , we visit the Oil Museum and pay homage at the 2nd World War Allied Forces Cemetery where 200 graves are permanently maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. You’ll return to Dibrugarh late afternoon after having a packed lunch. Enroute you’ll see the Bell Temple where there are over two hundred thousand brass bells. This evening you’ll relax at the Chang Bungalow after a long day out and stay overnight.

Day 3 : Dibrugarh / Jorhat.
Meals Included : Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After breakfast this morning you’ll drive to the river front and take a boat cruise in the mighty Brahmaputra in a country boat. Return to the mainland and drive to Siva sagar. At Sivasagar you’ll see the ruins of Ahom monuments and visit the Shiva Temple - believed to be the tallest of all Hindu Temples in existence. You’ll then drive onwards to Jorhat. Overnight at Thengal Manor - a heritage house.

Day 04 : Jorhat / Kaziranga.
Meals Included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After breakfast you’ll proceed on a day trip to Majuli Island - the largest inhabited river island in the world and famous for its Vaishnavite Satras ( monasteries ) and culture . You’ll visit the monasteries and interface with tribes in the island. Return to mainland in the afternoon and drive to Kaziranga National Park - a World heritage site. Stay overnight at Bonhabi Resort.

Day 05 : In Kaziranga.
Meals Included : Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
Early morning you’ll go for an elephant safari in the central range of the park followed by a jeep safari after breakfast. Rest of the day at leisure. Overnight at Bon Habi Resort.

Day 06 : Kaziranga / Shillong.
Meals Included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After breakfast this morning you’ll drive to Shillong in the state of Meghalaya- the “ lands of clouds”. You’ll walk through a local market to imbibe the spirit of the Khasi tribal market place run by the womenfolk. Overnight at Royal Heritage - Tripura Castle.

Day 07 : Shillong / Cherrapunjee / Shillong.
Meals Included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After breakfast you’ll get ready for a day trip to Cherrapunjee - the heaviest rainfall area in the world. The drive will enable us to have spectacular view of deep gorges and the rolling hills luxurious with tropical vegetation that boasts of an innumerable variety of ferns ,moss and orchids. Khasi literature was born here as the Khasis were taught the Roman script by the Welsh Missionaries. At Cherrapunjee you’ll explore the cave systems carved through limestone rocks - the stalactite and stagmalite formations are beautiful to behold. You’ll return to Shillong in the evening to stay overnight at the Tripura Castle.

Day 08 : Shillong.
Meals Included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner.
After breakfast this morning you’ll drive up to the Shillong Peak overlooking the beautiful town. You’ll visit the Elephant falls and the Wards Lake. This afternoon will be at your leisure. Overnight at Tripura Castle.

Day 09 : Shillong / Guwahati / Next Destination.
After early breakfast this morning you’ll depart Shillong and drive to the airport at Guwahati to board flight for onward destination.

CRUISES ON THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER
To experience remote part of Assam along the Brahmaputra, structure a river cruise into your itinerary. Consult us also on tour options to Arunachal and Nagaland.

 

You will notice the land on this tour is very pristine, free from the need of any commercial cleaning services, or from pollution that can bog down some places.

 

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