Plan your trip
MAP ILLUSTRATION: ALEX VERHILLE. PHOTOGRAPHS: SIMM REDDY/ALAMY, MAXIMILIAN STOCK LTD/GETTY, PRADEEP GAUR/MINT VIA GETTY IMAGES1
Cross
ingeniously
crafted root bridges,
living sculptures
designed to endure
monsoon floods in
the Khasi Hills
(p44).2
Seek out
rhinos,
elephants, water
buffalo and possibly
even a tiger in
Kaziranga
National
Park (p46).3
Catch a
ferry across
the Brahmaputra
to Majuli, the
world’s biggest river
island, a haven of
monasteries and
stilt houses (p48).4
Sample some
of the
finest Assam teas
available, straight
from the source,
with a visit
to the plantations
of Jorhat (p50).5
Venture into
the untamed
wilderness of
Nagaland, a
land of remote
hill tribes once
led by fearsome
headhunters (p52).