sea chalet Ahom artefacts and nearby Assam Tourism (h10am-5pm Mon-Sat, closed 2nd & 4th Sat) in the good-value

Travelling to Dibrugarh ( tea-city ) usefully closes a loop between Kaziranga and the Ziro Along Pasighat route and is the terminus sea chalet (or starting point) for the fascinating ferry ride along the Brahmaputra to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh. Dibrugarh is a rapidly growing city with a new road and rail bridge being built at Bogibeel Ghat (originally scheduled to open in 2008, it s now unlikely to be ready for some years to come) that will extend the railway system to north of the Brahmaputra.

The ASTC bus station (AT Rd) has frequent services sea chalet to Sivasagar ( 35 to 45, 1 hours), Tezpur ( 120 to 140, four hours) sea chalet and Guwahati ( 260, eight hours, eight buses 6am to noon; buses pass Kaziranga en route).

Ahom artefacts and nearby Assam Tourism (h10am-5pm Mon-Sat, closed 2nd & 4th Sat) in the good-value sea chalet Tourist Lodge (%2321579; sea chalet MG Rd; s/d 578/683), which has tiled floors, sea chalet mosquito nets and enthusiastic staff who know how to use cleaning products.