Assam.... a land of natural beauties, lush green, rivers, lakes, hills, animals -is the gateway to the North East India. It is a land of unexplored opportunities, gifted with abundant natural resources. It is one of the major States of North East India. Amazingly Assam is a multi- ethnic society but the mother tongue of the people of Assam is Assamese. Assam is famous for tea plantations and one horned rhinoceros which are found in abundance in Kaziranga National Park. Assam is also famous for petroleum production. Assam is such a beautiful state, totally different from the other states of India, that
one should include the state in their tour itinerary to explore a different world.
It is one of the seven north-eastern states (together called as 'seven sisters'),
which is situated just below the eastern Himalayan foothills, and bordered by the Kingdom of
Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to its north-east. The states of Nagaland, Manipur
and Mizoram lie in the south, while Meghalaya lies to the south-west. West Bengal and
Bangladesh are to its west. The state of Assam spreads over an area of 78,438 sq.kms and has
a population of 26,638,407. Blessed with several natural gifts, Assam is dominated by the massive
Brahmaputra River which has its origins in Tibet
