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Multi-State · Culture & Heritage

Assam-Nagaland Tribal Trail

A culture-and-wildlife combination pairing Kaziranga's wildlife with Nagaland's tribal heritage, ideally timed with the Hornbill Festival.

  • Duration7 days / 6 nights
  • StateMulti-State
  • Best timeBest in early December for Hornbill Festival; otherwise November-March

Highlights

  • Kaziranga rhino safari
  • Kohima War Cemetery
  • Hornbill Festival at Kisama (if timed in December)
  • Naga tribal villages and handicrafts

Day by day

  1. Day 1Arrival Guwahati - Kaziranga

    Guwahati to Kaziranga, and an early night — the morning starts before the light does. Overnight in Kaziranga.

  2. Day 2Kaziranga Safaris

    Elephant safari through the tall grass at dawn, jeep safari across the grassland in the afternoon. Rhino, and everything that shares the park with them. Overnight in Kaziranga.

  3. Day 3Kaziranga - Kohima

    Six or seven hours east and up into Nagaland, the plains giving way to steep hills and villages set on the ridgelines. Kohima by evening. Overnight in Kohima.

  4. Day 4Hornbill Festival / Kisama Heritage Village

    A full day at Kisama, where each Naga tribe keeps its own morung — a longhouse built in its own style, carved and thatched. If your dates land on the Hornbill Festival you will find it full of song, dance and smoke from a hundred kitchens; if not, the village stands quiet and you can take it in properly. Overnight in Kohima.

  5. Day 5Kohima City Tour

    The War Cemetery, terraced up a hillside with a headstone for each of the men who died holding this ridge in 1944. Then the markets, and time with Naga communities that no itinerary can really script. Overnight in Kohima.

  6. Day 6Kohima - Guwahati

    The long road back west towards Guwahati. Overnight in Guwahati.

  7. Day 7Departure

    Transfer to Guwahati airport or railway station for onward travel.

What's included

  • Chauffeur-driven vehicle for the full circuit
  • Fuel, tolls, parking and interstate permits
  • Driver allowance and night halt charges
  • Accommodation on twin sharing
  • Daily breakfast
  • All transfers and sightseeing by road
  • Inner Line Permit processing where applicable

Not included

  • Flights and train fare to and from Guwahati
  • Lunch, dinner and anything ordered to the room
  • Monument, park, safari and activity entry fees
  • Travel insurance and medical costs
  • GST as per government norms
  • Anything not listed under inclusions

Gallery

Kohima War Cemetery (rows of white gravestones on hillside)
Naga Heritage Village, Kisama (traditional Naga huts/morungs)
Majuli ferry crossing / river island aerial or wide shot
A one-horned rhinoceros on the grassland beside a river channel, Kaziranga
Visitors on an elephant safari passing a rhino and her calf, Kaziranga
Kisama Heritage Village from above during the Hornbill Festival, Nagaland

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