Prahan Chandra Ghosh is 57 years old and has served for 23 years in Assam tourism. Belonging to the Kohora village in Kaziranga, he studied a course in tourism and got placed in Guwahati, Assam. He didn’t like the city because he mentions it’s too fast and brutal for people like him. “Every farm kid, […]
Dipankar Bhagwati is from Guwahati, Assam but due to his wife’s profession, he shifted to Majuli. He is 42 years old and handles a homestay on his own in the village. His wife helps in the evening. The couple is really hardworking and humble. Dipankar and his wife have a bigger family in Guwahati. Due […]
Majuli, the largest freshwater island in the world, is located in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra River just 20 km away from the cultural capital of Assam – Jorhat. Now, the entire island has been declared a district. Majuli This island district can be reached only by ferries from towns like Jorhat. It is […]
Assam being the entry point to North East India, it was by default the first place that I travelled to while visiting this part of India. This was way back in August 2014, I was 23 back then and still pretty raw, on my first outing to the North East. I remember landing at Guwahati […]
With the boom in travel over the last few years we a tlow have modified a few of our trips to help make your holiday a lot more enriching. Here are 10 of them: 1. Bhandardara camping This might sound rather odd but yes, our campsite at Bhandardara is an ideal place for those on […]
Kaziranga National Park is a 170 square mile park located in Assam, India. The park was established in 1908 as a forest reserve. It had previously been declared the Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest in 1905 due to the Viceroy of India’s wife Mary Curzon’s concern about the lack of rhinos. Kaziranga was originally 90 square […]
Safety is easily the biggest concern for any person when they decide to leave home and embark on a journey be it an official meeting or a leisure holiday. No one wants to travel or visit a place that is unsafe. Safety in the North East can be broken down into two parts – the […]
Each one of us wants to travel, be it to get a break from what we are doing, to celebrate important milestones, to recover from a setback and sometimes it is just to add a place to our travel list. While it’s easy to have an urge to travel, deciding a place and planning your […]
General questions Q.Where are Assam and Meghalaya located? They are located in the North-Eastern side of India Q. Is it safe? Yes. Assam and Meghalaya are extremely safe to travel to. Tourists are not affected by any kind of conflict till date. Q. What about internal conflicts which we see and see read about in […]
Known generally the home of the precious one-horned rhinoceros, and the mind-numbing contradictions of birds; the beautiful state of Assam stands as much more than just these, here are some interesting things or facts about Guwahati in Assam to extend your horizon about the place. History of Guwahati There was a time when Guwahati was […]