An Assam tour package is the easiest way into Northeast India, and for most travellers it is also the most rewarding. Assam sits in the broad valley of the Brahmaputra, one of Asia's great rivers, and almost every journey to the other northeastern states begins in its capital region of Guwahati. Yet Assam is far more than a transit point. It is home to Kaziranga National Park, where roughly two-thirds of the world's greater one-horned rhinoceros live, to Majuli, a vast inhabited river island known for its Vaishnavite monasteries, and to the tea gardens that produce the malty, full-bodied leaf the state is famous for worldwide.
Our Assam tours are designed around what the state does best: wildlife, river life, living culture and history. You can spend dawn on an open jeep in the tall elephant grass of Kaziranga, watch the sun set over the Brahmaputra from a country boat, take part in a mask-making demonstration in a Majuli satra, and walk through the brick pavilions and temples left by the Ahom kings who ruled this valley for six centuries. Evenings are for Assamese thalis, Bihu songs and quiet tea estate bungalows.
Road distances in Assam are long but the highways are good, so we pace every itinerary to avoid more than five or six hours of driving in a day. Most of our Assam packages start and end in Guwahati, with Jorhat and Dibrugarh used as gateways for Upper Assam, Majuli and the eastern rainforests. Assam also combines naturally with Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, and our combo tours appear on each state page they cover.
