Assam
The Brahmaputra valley and the emerald tea-covered hills.
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Trails & landmarks
Kaziranga Foot Trail
A guided elephant-grass walk through Panbari's tiger buffer — the only foot route inside Kaziranga's 1090 km² park.
Manas National Park Trek
A UNESCO riverine park at the Bhutan border — walking safaris past golden langurs and one-horned rhinos.
Nameri River Trek
A rafting-and-walking trail along the Jia Bhoroli at the Arunachal foothills — white-winged duck country.
Umananda Island Hike
The world's smallest inhabited river island — a short stepped climb on a Brahmaputra peacock-island shrine.
Haflong Hills Walk
Assam's only hill town — a ridge promenade around the bougainvillaea-draped Dima Hasao capital.
Jatinga Ridge
A 1 km ridge above the valley known for its eerie post-monsoon avian phenomenon — birds falling from fog to lamp.
Borail Wildlife Trek
A broadleaf forest sanctuary on the Barail range — the highest hills in the Cachar, gibbons and clouded leopards.
Maibong Heritage Walk
The old Kachari capital on the Mahur river — a riverbed walk to the Ramchandi temple and the stone-house ruins.
Majuli Island Walk
The world's largest river island — mask-making satras, Mising stilt villages and sunset kayaks on the Brahmaputra.
Sivasagar Tank Walk
A 130 acre Ahom-era tank ringed by three temples — a morning lap past the Sivadol shikhara and old Ahom palaces.
Pobitora Wildlife Trail
A rhino-dense wetland an hour east of Guwahati — watchtower walks over Rajamayong hill and paddy buffer.
Chakrashila Hills
Lower Assam's only sanctuary for the golden langur — a forest trail to Diplai Beel and the Dwitung summit.
Dibru-Saikhowa Trek
A Brahmaputra biosphere reserve at the Arunachal confluence — feral horses, grassland camps and Maguri Beel dawn.
Kakochang Waterfall
A tea-garden cascade just east of Kaziranga — a short paved walk to a rock-pool swim in the Numaligarh foothills.
Panimur Falls
A terraced drop of the Kopili river deep in Dima Hasao — walled by volcanic cliffs, reached by a rough forest road.
Akashiganga Falls
A pilgrim cascade in the Sonitpur hills — a stepped climb to the spot where Sati's ashes are said to have fallen.
Kamakhya Hill Trek
A stepped forest climb up Nilachal to the shakta shrine — a 1 km path lined with banyans and langurs.
Chandubi Lake
An 1897 earthquake lake at the foot of the Garo hills — Rabha villages, paddy birds and placid kayaking.
Son Beel Wetland
The second largest wetland in Asia during monsoon, dry rice fields by winter — a shape-shifting Karimganj lake.
Haflong Lake
A crescent lake at the heart of the Dima Hasao capital — pedal boats, tea stalls and pine-covered shores.
Deepor Beel
Guwahati's Ramsar wetland on the flanks of the Garbhanga forest — greater adjutants and elephants at the reed-edge.
Dehing Patkai Rainforest Trek
Assam's 'Amazon' — a walk through WWII-era Stilwell Road trails in the Jeypore and Upper Dihing rainforests.
Raimona National Park
Assam's youngest park, gazetted 2021 — riverine Bodoland forest with golden langurs and Bhutan elephant corridors.
Urpad Beel
A large Goalpara wetland on the Brahmaputra floodplain — winter flocks of bar-headed geese and fishermen canoes.
Panbari Reserve Hike
The Kaziranga evergreen add-on — hornbill and hoolock gibbon walks in a pocket of tall dipterocarp near the park.
Agnigarh Hill, Tezpur
A legendary 'fire-ringed fort' hillock on the Brahmaputra — a Hari-Hara shrine and 360° Dafla-hill horizons at sunset.
Silghat Brahmaputra Walk
A sleepy river ferry town between Tezpur and Kaziranga — clay-pot kilns, dolphin-watch rafts and sunset on the north bank.
Hajo Manikut Parvat
A small hill housing the Hayagriva Madhava temple — revered by Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims in a single stepped circuit.
Darranga Bhutan Gate Walk
The Assam side of the Samdrup Jongkhar entry — a flat river-plain walk past tea gardens to the Bhutanese border gate.