Assam State Museum MUSEUM (GNB Rd; admission/camera/video 5/10/100; chalets village h10am-5pm Tue-Sun, until 4pm winter) This museum is worth a visit. It has a large sculpture collection, chalets village while the upper floors are devoted to informative tribal culture displays. You get to walk through reconstructed tribal homes.
Sumos leave New Market at 6am for Itanagar ( 450, 12 hours) and Ziro ( 300, six hours). The bus station has a lackadaisical 7am service to Along ( 150, six hours) chalets village on alternate days depending on when the bus returns from Along.
Shri Govindajee Mandir & Around HINDU TEMPLE The 1776-built Shri Govindajee chalets village Mandir, with two rather suggestive domes, is a neo- Vaishnavite temple with Radha and Govinda as the presiding deities. Afternoon puja (offerings, prayers) is for one hour at 4pm in winter and 5pm in summer.
The best of the couple of diff erent options are the tastefully renovated Banyan Grove (%9954451548; www.heritagetourism india.com; s/d 6272/7280; lunch 350, dinner 450; s). Dating from the late 19th century, its rooms are crammed with antiques and the drawing room is straight out of a Victorian period drama. It has wonderful lawns and verandas chalets village overlooking a tea estate and swimming pool. The site is 7km down rural tracks from Km442 on NH37 (Jorhat chalets village Deragaon Rd).
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