Our Trips - Cultural Tours - Arunachal Pradesh & Assam Cultural Tours

Season : Mid September to Mid December
Best Time : Mid March to Mar June
Note : Avoid Mid December to Mid March, when the entire region is under heavy snow and the minimum temperature falls below Zero degree.

Duration : 22 Days

Formerly a single political territory known as undivided Assam, the Chinese explorer Chang Kien, traced the Country’s trade links with Assam as way back as 100 BC. A systematic account of its history is only found from 13th Century AD when the Ahoms conquered the North East . The Ahoms originated from Shan Tribes of Burma and ruled this region for six centuries, squashing eighteen incursions by the powerful Moghul armies of Delhi Durbar. Sandwiched between Tibet (China) in the North, Bhutan in North West, Burma ( Myanmar) on the East, Bangladesh in South, the region stands as an intermediary linking the South East Asia and the rest of India. Inhabitants one of Mongoloid stock. A remote and scantily populated area, this vast canopy of rain forest, is a dynamic blend of an amazing plethora of flora and fauna and its one of the 17 bio – diversity heritage site of the World. Its very isolation has been a blessing from the ills of over development and its natural haunting beauty lures visitors to this rich valley, in whose hidden folds, live her ancient tribes in seclusion , whose isolation has created an enigma with a mysterious association which form an organic ink with the rest of these seven sisters of Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur.

The last frontier of the pre-historic one horned rhino at Kaziranga, the royal Bengal Tiger at the World heritage of Manas National Park bordering Bhutan , Majula the world’s largest inhabited riverine island. Meghalaya swaddled amidst wraith like mish and the abode of “ Clouds” is unique with its matrilineal society which governs lineage and ancestral inheritance through the female line.

Day 01
 Arrive Delhi – Indian Calling representative will meet on arrival and transfer to hotel.

Day 02
In Delhi – Full day tour of New and Old Delhi city. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 03
Transfer to airport for flight to Guwahati. On arrival transfer to hotel. Afternoon visit Kamakshya Shakti temple, Nabagarha (  9 planets) temple, State Museum. Evening cruise on River Brahmaputra to the island temple of Shiva at Umanauda.

Day 04
Breakfast. Drive to Tezpur. One of the most beautiful town in Assam and associated with the love legend of princess Usha and Prince Aniruddha.

Day 05
Breakfast. Drive to Itanagar. On arrival transfer to hotel.

Day 06
Breakfast. Drive to Ziro and visit an Apatani Village, Tarin fish Farm Emporium and museum. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 07
Breakfast. Drive to Daporijo enroute visit a Tagim Village, the Tagim and HilliMiri are the predominants tribes of this area.

Day 08
Breakfast. Drive to Along visit a typical Adi Gallong Village. Afternoon visit the local market and museum.

Day 09
Breakfast. Drive to Pasighat. Visit local musum, emporium and market.

Day 10
Early breakfast. Drive to Dibrugarh by crossing the River Brahmaputra by ferry.

Day 11
Breakfast. Dibrugarh is the heart of the tea growing belt. Visit a tea plantation familiarise with the methods of tea plucking, drying, curling and package.

Day 12
Breakfast. Drive to Kaziranga National Park enroute visit 600 year old Ahom monuments at Sibsagar. Check-in at the resort. Afternoon game viewing. All meals.

Day 13
Early morning jeep safari for game viewing. Return to resort for breakfast. After lunch jeep safari for game viewing. Home of their one horned Indian Rhinoceros, Kaziranga also abounds in tiger, buffalo, Swamp and hog deer, wild elephants, sambar, gibbon and hundred of species of resident and migratory birds.

Day 14
Breakfast. Drive to Guwahati. Check-in at the hotel.

Day 15
Breakfast. Drive to Haflong, Assam’s only hill station. The hills emerge like a chorus of silent hymus and rise up to the sky like a crescendo. A land of sensuousness as the mountains float in the distant sky with the clouds descending form in between.

Day 16
Breakfast. Visit the nearby town of Jatinga which has the most unique feature of a mysterious bird’s death. The town becomes an ornithologists paradise from August to November when various species of migratory birds arrive here. At the end of the mating season one can see the elder birds diving to their fragile dropping down.

Day 17
Breakfast. Drive to Shillong in Meghalaya. Visit Wardi Lake and Shillong peak.

Day 18
Breakfst. Day excursion to Cherrapunjee, the wettest place on earth. A very picturesque drive. Visit water falls and laves. Return to Shillong.

Day 19
Breakfast. Drive to Tura.

Day 20
Day excursion to NOK REK BIOSPHERE PARK.

Day 21
 Return to Shillong.

Day 22
Drive to Guwahati airport for flight to Calcutta to connect onward flight.


EXTENSION IN ARUNACHAL

Sandwiched between Myanmar on its South and eastern boundaries and the Himalaya foot hills on the North, lies Namidapha National park in the Changlang district of Arunachal. The park was brought under Project Tiger in 1983 and boasts of wide variety of flora and fauna. It is perhaps the only National park that is home to four predators the tiger, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard and cats. Covering an area of 1850 sq. kms other fauna life includes elephants, gaur, sambar, hog deer, bear, panda, slow loris, variety of monkeys and birds.

10 Drive Pasighat to Namidpha National Park. Afternoon elephant safari for game viewing.

11 Early morning game viewing. Return to Lodge for breakfast. At leisure for nature walk to the nearby Namdapha river. Lunch. Afternoon game viewing. Return to Lodge for overnight.

12 Drive to Dibrugarh. Check-in to hotel. Afternoon visit tea garden. Evening a traditional folk dance by tea tribes.

13 Transfer to Dibrugarh airport for flight to Guwahati. Connect flight to Calcutta.

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