Joysagar to Gargaon (Ahom Palace Circuit)
Sivasagar, Assam, India
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Namdang Stone Bridge
Sivasagar, Assam
A 1703 single-rock bridge over the Namdang, carved from one boulder and still carrying the national highway three centuries on — Ahom engineering intact.
Talatal Ghar & Kareng Ghar, Rangpur
Sivasagar, Assam
The Ahom royal palace — a seven-storey structure with three underground floors, secret tunnels and stables, the grandest of the dynasty's buildings.
Rang Ghar, Sivasagar
Sivasagar, Assam
Asia's oldest surviving amphitheatre — the two-storey oval royal pavilion where the Ahom kings watched buffalo fights and games, roofed like an inverted boat.
Sivasagar Tank & Shiva Dol
Sivasagar, Assam
A vast 1734 tank ringed by three temples — the Shiva Dol, one of India's tallest Shiva temples, and the Vishnu and Devi dols, heart of the old capital.
Joysagar Tank & Ahom Temples
Sivasagar, Assam
Said to be India's largest man-made tank, dug in 45 days by an Ahom king in his mother's memory — ringed by 17th-century temples and winter birds.
Gaurisagar & Rudrasagar Tanks
Sivasagar, Assam
More of the Ahom queens' great tanks and temples around Sivasagar — Gaurisagar's Devi, Vishnu and Shiva dols in a serene rural setting.