States of India

Assam

Capital: Dispur

Map of Assam

Assam is situated at the North Eastern part of India and one of the states of seven sisters. Seven sisters known as seven sisters the North Eastern states. Assam shares its international border with three Bs BBB, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Burma and shares national border surronded with Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalya. The Dispur is the capital of Assam. Bamboo craft is famous handicrafts of Assam, and canewood furniture is also a famous handicrafts. People use clay pots and crockery for daily use. Black stone pottery is also a major business of Assam. Kaziranga National Park is famous for its wildlife in Assam, the Rhinoceros, Elephant and the Tiger are famous wildlife animals in Assam. Generally people lived in bamboo house (hut) and use bamboo and canewood furniture. Assam has the biggest river Brahmaputra and the valley of it. There is a place Siliguri in West Bengal wich connect these all seven states with India is called Chicken neck. Assam is famous for Assam tea productions, one can see the beautiful tea gardens, and Assam silk, house for Indian rhinaceros, Asian Elephant, Assam tigers, Kaziranga national park and Brahmaputra river.

Tourist Places in Assam:

Ahon Raja's Palace-Garhgaon

Kamakhya Temple Guwahati

Rang ghar pavilion

Brahmaputra river bridge Kolia Bhomara - Tezpur

Kaziranga National Park - Sivasagar

Rhinoceros at Kaziranga national park in Assam wild life preservation, beautiful wild animal known as rhinoceros India. Beside this you can also watch Asiatic elephant roaming around, tiger and other animals and birds. Tourist can also take elephant safari to watch wildlife in jungle.

How to Reach Assam

The easy way to reach Assam by train, there are several train go to Assam one of them is Gowahati Express from Delhi. The Assam connected with India by Siliguri in West Bengal.

Cultural Assam

Bihu Dance of Assam

It is called bihu folk dance Assam, Putting palms on waist, the dancers made brisk footsteps and swayed their body while circling the place; young men played the cymbal, drum and the pipe and all the spectators are tapping their feet in the rhythm of music, this was my experience when I watched the Bihu dance few months ago. It was some cultural festival in surajkund Haryana, where I got chance to see the Assamese folk dance, Rongali Bihu for the first time. The people of Assam celebrates three types of Bihu festival – Rongaali Bihu in the mid April, Kati Bihu or Kongaali Bihu that is celebrated in mid October and Magh or Bhogali Bihu is the festival of January. All the three Bihu festival commemorates the three phases of cultivation – Bohaag bihu marks the advent of new year and start of cultivation, the Kati Bihu is the festival after completing the sowing of paddy and ultimately the Magh Bihu is the celebrated after the harvest period. To welcome the new year and in the anticipation of the good harvest, young men and women dance in colorful dresses in festivity. The brisk steps and the hand movements, the sound of melodious music, the energy of the dancers enthralls the audience and takes them to another world

Map of Assam

Map of Assam showing all the seven sisters around Assam boundary, Butan, Bangladesh and Burma at international boundary.