Aswaklanta & Manikarneswar, North Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam, India
Nearby attractions
Doul Govinda & North Guwahati Temples
Guwahati, Assam
The Krishna temple of Doul Govinda across the river, famed for its Holi Doul festival — reached by ferry with a cluster of old north-bank shrines.
Umananda Temple (Peacock Island)
Guwahati, Assam
A Shiva temple on the world's smallest inhabited river island, mid-Brahmaputra — reached by ferry, home to the rare golden langur and Ahom-era carvings.
Nilachal Ropeway (Kamakhya–City)
Guwahati, Assam
India's longest river ropeway across the Brahmaputra, linking the city to North Guwahati — aerial views of the great river, its islands and the temple hills.
Brahmaputra River Cruise & Sunset, Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam
Sunset dinner cruises on the mighty Brahmaputra — dolphin sightings, the Umananda island silhouette and the city's ghats aglow from the water.
Dighalipukhuri & Guwahati Ghats
Guwahati, Assam
The historic rectangular tank of Kamarupa legend in the city heart — pedal boats, a promenade and the old ghats and museums around it.
Nehru Park & Guwahati Planetarium
Guwahati, Assam
A city-centre park of dance-pose sculptures depicting Assam's folk forms, beside the domed Guwahati Planetarium's sky shows.
Assam State Museum, Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam
The state's premier museum — Kamarupa and Ahom-era sculpture, manuscripts, tribal galleries and a recreated Assamese village on Dighalipukhuri's bank.
Ugratara Temple, Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam
An Ahom-era Shakti temple of the goddess Tara beside the Jor Pukhuri twin tanks — one of Guwahati's important tantric shrines, near the museum quarter.
Kamakhya Temple
Guwahati, Assam
Atop Nilachal Hill above the Brahmaputra sits the most revered of the 51 Shakti Peethas — a beehive-domed shrine where the goddess is worshipped as the source of creation itself, thronged by tantrics and pilgrims, especially during the Ambubachi Mela.
Bhubaneswari Temple & Guwahati Hill Views
Guwahati, Assam
A hilltop Devi temple on the Nilachal range above Kamakhya — the finest panorama over Guwahati, the Brahmaputra and its islands.
Navagraha Temple, Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam
The 'temple of nine planets' on Chitrachal hill — an ancient centre of astrology and astronomy that gave Guwahati its old name Pragjyotishpura.
Saraighat Bridge & Battle Site
Guwahati, Assam
The Brahmaputra rail-road bridge at the narrows where Ahom general Lachit Borphukan crushed the Mughal navy in 1671 — a proud site of Assamese history.