Majuli, Sivasagar and Jorhat

• Kaziranga
• 70 m
• 215 km from airport · 5 hrs
• Dinner

Our driver meets you at Guwahati airport and we head east on NH27, stopping for lunch near Nagaon. Arrive at your Kohora lodge by mid-afternoon if you land before 10 am; later arrivals reach by early evening. The afternoon is for settling in and a short walk through the neighbouring tea garden. In the evening we brief you on the next day's safari slots. If your flight lands early, we try to fit an afternoon jeep safari in the Central Range, subject to arrival time and slot availability.

• Kaziranga
• 70 m
• Local · park roads
• Breakfast, Dinner

An optional elephant ride at dawn from Kohora or Bagori, available from about 1 November, starts the day. After breakfast the morning jeep safari enters the Central Range, the best introduction to the park's grasslands, rhino and wild buffalo. After lunch the afternoon jeep goes to the Western Range at Bagori, where rhino density is highest. In the evening we suggest the cultural show at one of the Kohora centres, which introduces Bihu dance and the Assamese music you will hear again on Majuli.

• Majuli
• 85 m
• 110 km to Nimati Ghat · 2.5 hrs, ferry 1–1.5 hrs
• Breakfast, Dinner

We leave Kaziranga at 7 am and drive 95 km east to Jorhat, then 13 km to Nimati Ghat on the Brahmaputra. Ferries usually run several times between morning and mid-afternoon, and we aim for a late-morning crossing. The boat carries people, motorbikes and a few cars, and the crossing takes an hour to an hour and a half depending on the water level and sandbars. On arrival at Kamalabari Ghat a Majuli-based vehicle drives you to your bamboo cottage at Garamur. Afternoon walk to a nearby Mising village at sunset.

• Majuli
• 85 m
• Local · about 50 km on the island
• Breakfast, Dinner

A full day among the satras. We begin at Uttar Kamalabari Satra, known for Sattriya dance, where the resident monks, called bhakats, sometimes practise in the morning. Next is Auniati Satra, founded in 1653, with a small museum of Ahom-era utensils, ivory and manuscripts. After lunch at a local eatery, Dakhinpat Satra, whose Raas festival draws big crowds in November. Evening prayers, the naam-prasanga, are sung at dusk; we time one satra visit so you can sit in. Photography inside the namghar is usually not allowed, so ask first.

• Majuli
• 85 m
• Local · about 60 km on the island
• Breakfast, Dinner

Morning at Samaguri Satra, where the family of the satradhikar makes masks for bhaona plays from bamboo, cloth and clay, some large enough to cover the whole body. They often demonstrate a stage of the process and sell small masks. Then to Salmora on the island's eastern edge, where potters shape clay by hand and beat it with paddles, with no wheel, and fire it in open kilns. Afternoon cycling or walking through a Mising village, whose houses stand on stilts against floods, with a chance to taste apong rice beer.

• Jorhat
• 116 m
• Ferry 1–1.5 hrs, then about 190 km round trip · 5 hrs
• Breakfast, Dinner

We take an early ferry back to Nimati Ghat, where your main vehicle waits. From Jorhat it is about 60 km and 1.5 hours to Sivasagar, capital of the Ahom kingdom that ruled Assam for six centuries. See the Shiva Dol on the tank's bank, Rang Ghar, an 18th-century royal pavilion built to watch games and Bihu, and Talatal Ghar, the multi-storeyed palace complex. Then 28 km to Charaideo, where grassy moidams hold the remains of Ahom royalty and were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024. Return to Jorhat for the night.

• Departure
• 116 m
• Hotel to Jorhat Airport 7 km · 20 min
• Breakfast

A free morning in Jorhat, depending on your flight time. If you have a few hours, visit the Tocklai Tea Research Institute area, where Assam's tea science began in 1911, though entry to the institute itself needs prior permission. Alternatively walk the Gar-Ali market for Assamese silk, gamosa towels and dried tea. Jorhat Airport at Rowriah is about 7 km from the town centre and has direct flights to Kolkata and Delhi. If you prefer to fly from Guwahati, the drive is about 310 km and seven to eight hours, and we can arrange it at extra cost.