Assam

dance · wildlife

The compere tells us: "On behalf of Assam, we greet everyone here. We belong to the Rabha tribe of Asom. We will present the Farkanti / Farkranti dance. On dying, a person becomes a bird and flies away.

monsoon · aerial

In the wider flood waters around the Brahmaputra, these outlying areas have also been flooded during the recent floods in Asom.

Dendrelaphis pictus, the common bronzeback, painted bronzeback, or Indonesian bronzeback, is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia and India.

wildlife · birds

Elephant safari in Manas National Park, Assam: Stabilized camera follows elephant and rider, with bird calls aplenty, including a Blue-throated Barbet and a Kaphal pako or Indian Hawk Cuckoo.

flowers · aerial

Tea garden in Assam: Stunning aerial view of greenery around Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Asom Tea garden in Assam: Stunning aerial view of greenery around Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Asom

wildlife

Dead Asian / Indian Elephant in Assam. This elephant could well have been killed by poachers. North-east India, Kaziranga National Park region.

A man makes a mask for a bhawna show on Majuli Island in Assam, one of the world's largest riverine islands in Asom, India. Large teeth and big eyes seem to be the chief motifs of these threatening looking masks.

Bored looking Golden Langur at Kakoijana in Assam. It looks sleepy and indifferent. Golden Langur lunches at Kakoijana in Assam, Jungli Murghi calls in background audio track. Golden Langur eats his lunch at Kakoijana

river · aerial

Tezpur Aerial view from Assam, along banks of Brahmaputra river Tezpur Aerial view from Assam, along banks of Brahmaputra river

river · aerial

Tezpur city on the banks of the Brahmaputra river, in Sonitpur district, Assam: Aerial view of Asom city of the Ahom kingdom in 16th century.

river · aerial

Life on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in India. Brahmaputra as aquatic lifeline of north-east India, with beels in Asom / Assam, vast wetland spreads inland from the Brahmaputra river itself, massive riverine islands that provide suste…

river · aerial

Sweep up a river valley in Assam's thickly forested northern borderlands adjacent to Bhutan's forested south.

wildlife · forest

The lively antics of two Western Hoolock Gibbons as they climb and swing through the trees at Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Assam.

river · aerial

An aerial journey down the Brahmaputra river at sunset in Assam, along the big river and Dibru Saikhowa Sanctuary's wilderness areas.

wildlife · village

Destruction caused by wild elephants in Assam! Life and property are often threatened by the close proximity of human habitations to wild elephant habitat in Assam, India.

river · boats

Boat ride in the evening on the mighty Brahmaputra offers a splendid sunset view. Lovely red and yellow sunset along with dark cloud in the sky over the river will mesmerise you.

street food

We have tried to promote Assamese food over the last 25 years. In Assam, our community has a unique style of cooking that is completely different from the rest of India.

forest · birds

Indian One-horned Rhinoceros grazing in grassy meadow with Black Drongo birds flitting around it and sitting on its back, in the tall grasslands at Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary of Assam, India. The summer wind is blowing rather strong.

wildlife · forest

Gibbon Sanctuary Aerial view of agriculture and thick forest interface from Hollongapar, Assam, with a railway track running through the forest, with a wildlife corridor running alongside it.

aerial · farmland

Aerial bird's eye view of Kakoijana village, forest and agricultural field interfaces in Assam Aerial bird's eye view of Kakoijana village, forest and agricultural field interfaces in Assam, as seen aerially, from the air.

forest · river

Beels and wetlands, hyacinth islands and real ones, marshes and waterways, all along the mighty Brahmaputra river in Assam.

wildlife · monsoon

A One-horned Rhinoceros calf in Assam's Kaziranga is trapped in flooded waters during the monsoons. Locals are seen crossing the floodwaters with the calf on a wooden canoe and taken to the wildlife rehabilitation center.

monsoon · farmland

In the thick of a monsoon shower, this Assamese man walks to his rice paddy fields to set up an ingenious fish trap! He sets up the trap between two fields where the water is draining out, and surrounds it with vegetation, to ensure that th…