Places to visit in Assam
48 places to visit in Assam, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Kaziranga National Park, Manas National Park, Hayagriva Madhava Temple and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Assam volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 5 National monuments · 2 State heritage sites · 7 Famous places to visit · 4 Offbeat places · 28 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Assam (2)
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Kaziranga National Park
Two thirds of the world's one horned rhino, in one grassland.
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Manas National Park
On the Bhutan border, taken off the danger list in 2011 after local communities brought the poaching down themselves.
National monuments in Assam (5)
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Hayagriva Madhava Temple
A temple on Manikut hill at Hajo, holy to Hindus and to Buddhists who say the Buddha died there.
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Kareng Ghar
The Ahom seat at Garhgaon.
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Negheriting Shiva Doul
An Ahom temple on a mound near Dergaon, rebuilt after an earthquake, with four smaller shrines round it.
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Panbari Mosque
The oldest mosque in Assam, built in the time of Hussain Shah and still standing at Dhubri.
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Rang Ghar
A two storey Ahom pavilion of 1746 for watching games, built with a mortar of rice paste and duck egg.
State heritage sites in Assam (2)
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Charaideo Maidams
Ahom burial mounds, inscribed in 2024.
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Madan Kamdev
Scattered erotic sculpture in a quiet grove.
Famous places to visit in Assam (7)
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Bogibeel Bridge
Five kilometres of road and rail laid across the Brahmaputra between Dhemaji and Dibrugarh.
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Haflong
The only hill station in Assam, at seven hundred metres in the Barail range, with a lake at its centre.
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Kamakhya Temple
On Nilachal hill above the Brahmaputra, one of the oldest shakti peethas, holding no image at all but a spring in the rock.
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Maha Mrityunjay Temple
A temple at Nagaon built in the shape of a linga, 126 feet of it, and said to be the largest anywhere.
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Majuli
One of the largest river islands in the world, shrinking each flood, holding Vaishnavite monasteries founded in the sixteenth century.
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Mayong
A village on the Brahmaputra known for centuries as the home of India's magicians, with a museum of the manuscripts to prove it.
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Orang National Park
A small park on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, a sanctuary from 1985 and a national park from 1999.
Offbeat places in Assam (4)
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Dehing Patkai National Park
Two hundred and thirty square kilometres of lowland rainforest in upper Assam.
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Dibru Saikhowa National Park
Feral horses on an island between two rivers.
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Dipor Bil
A freshwater lake southwest of Guwahati, left behind in an old channel of the Brahmaputra.
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Sikhna Jwhwlao National Park
Three hundred square kilometres of the Manas country in Bodoland, made a national park.
Hidden gems in Assam (28)
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Agnigarh
A hillock at Tezpur where Banasura is said to have shut his daughter away behind a wall of fire.
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Barpeta Satra
The Vaishnav monastery at the heart of Assam's culture.
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Basistha Ashram
Three streams meeting under a sage's rock.
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Batadrava Than
Where Srimanta Sankardeva was born.
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Bhairabi Temple, Tezpur
A temple on a hill by the Brahmaputra where Bana's daughter is said to have worshipped.
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Bhupen Hazarika Setu
Nine kilometres across the Lohit.
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Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary
A sanctuary on the Bhutan foothills for the pygmy hog and the hispid hare.
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Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary
A sanctuary on the south bank of the Brahmaputra, meant as a second home for the rhino.
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Chandubi Lake
A lake made by the earthquake of 1897, in the Garo foothills, quiet and shallow.
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Deepor Beel
A permanent freshwater lake southwest of Guwahati, a Ramsar site with a railway along one edge.
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Digboi Oil Museum
Asia's first oil well, still producing.
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Dighalipukhuri
A tank dug for a wedding, a thousand years ago.
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Doul Govinda Temple
A Krishna temple on Chandrabharati hill in North Guwahati, reached across the river.
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Hajo
Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim pilgrimage on the same hill.
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Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary
The only place in India with the hoolock gibbon, in a forest cut through by a railway line.
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Jorhat Tea Estates
The bungalows and the flush, from July.
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Kakochang Falls
Water off the Karbi hills beside Kaziranga.
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Mahabhairav Temple
A temple at Tezpur on the bank of the Brahmaputra, founded by Bana the asura king.
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Nameri National Park
Rafting the Jia Bhoroli through hornbill forest.
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Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
The densest rhino population anywhere.
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Raimona National Park
Bodoland's first national park, on the Bhutan border, notified in 2021.
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Saraighat Bridge
The first bridge ever built across the Brahmaputra in Assam, carrying road and rail both.
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Sivasagar Tank
A tank dug by the Ahom kingdom whose water sits higher than the town around it, with three temples on its bank.
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Sualkuchi
Every second house weaves muga silk.
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Sukreswar Temple
A temple on a hillock above the Brahmaputra at Guwahati, with a long flight down to the water.
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Talatal Ghar
Ahom palace with floors below the ground.
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Ugratara Temple
A shakti peetha at Guwahati where the navel is said to have fallen, with a tank beside it.
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Umananda Island
The smallest inhabited river island in the world, in the middle of the Brahmaputra, reached only by ferry.
Collecting in Assam
What are the best places to visit in Assam?
LOQAH lists 48 places in Assam. The best known include Kaziranga National Park, Manas National Park, Hayagriva Madhava Temple, Kareng Ghar and Negheriting Shiva Doul. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Assam?
48, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Assam?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Assam before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Assam and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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