Brahmaputra River Cruise & Sunset, Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam, India
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aswaklanta & Manikarneswar, North Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam
Ahom-era hill temples on the Brahmaputra's north bank — the Aswaklanta Vishnu temple and Manikarneswar Shiva shrine, reached by ferry with river views.
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.
Bihu Festival & Assamese Folk Culture
Guwahati, Assam
Assam's soul — the spring Rongali Bihu of husori dance and dhol, the harvest Bhogali Bihu of feasting and bonfires, and the autumn Kongali Bihu, statewide.
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.